Digraphs and Blends

The Startup Reading Digraphs and Blends Workbook is designed to provide reading strategies for a solid foundation in literacy. The objective is for students to develop their decoding, reading and comprehension skills. Each reading skill is introduced and reinforced through a series of interactive activities to add an element of fun to the lessons.  Students will gain the necessary phonological awareness to analyze and decode long and short vowel words with digraphs and beginning consonant blends.

Throughout the Startup Reading Digraphs and Blends Workbook, students write vowel accent marks before reading the words to provide a visual understanding of the vowel sound. Examples of the long and short vowel accent mark in words are:

chase / chat                wheat / when              shine / fish                                      coach / cost                blue / brush.

Students continue to use this strategy as they read short stories with decodable and grade-level sight words. Adding digraphs and blends to their command of vowel sounds expands the number of words students are able to decode on their own.

We are pleased to have the opportunity to provide your child with a positive and rewarding experience for academic success in the foundational skills of learning to read.