Consonant Blends & Digraphs in English | Sophai Creator Share

Practice 2 times and comment DONE ✅! Consonant Digraphs vs. Consonant Blends. Follow @farmerlovesphonics for more early literacy lessons, tips and more! 🥰Blend is technically an action, but it’s a term that most programs use for adjacent consonants. Each letter represents a sound in a consonant blend, while digraphs represent one sound. These grapheme cards are in my TpT store (Sound Drill Cards). If you would like the link, comment Sound Drill Please and I will send the link. #teachersofinstag

As someone who once thought blends and digraphs were just fancy grammar terms that didn’t really matter, there was something that always seemed true. And that was that both were just combinations of letters that sounded the same—so why make the distinction? BUT OH HOW WRONG THAT WAS! You see, the idea that blends and digraphs work the same way in phonics could not have been further from the truth. Because the truth? Is that blends are two consonants where both sounds are heard (like st in star),