My daughter is reading on her own but still struggling a bit with some phonic rules. One of the digraphs that was giving her trouble is the ‘sh’ sound. No matter how many times I explain that ‘sh’ makes the ‘quiet sound’ and put my finger to my lips and say, “Shhhhhhh.” She still attempted to sound it out when in the context of a book.

So I decided to create this game to practice the ‘sh’ digraph while reading words that begin and end in the sound. I also created a word book to help her remember the words and the spelling of the sound by writing it out in a simple book format. The game and word book also cover the common core requirement RF.1.3a which states “Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.”

Once she completed the game and the book she was no longer trying to sound out each letter for ‘sh’! Yay! Now to move onto the other consonant digraphs like CH and TH! Look for those game and book sets coming up soon!