Trigraphs
Read and spell words containing trigraphs — three-letter graphemes representing a single sound (igh, air, ear, are)
What a learner can do afterwards
- Read words with trigraphs (e.g. 'night', 'chair', 'near')
- Distinguish between different sounds for 'ear' (e.g. 'hear' vs 'bear')
- Identify the single phoneme represented by three letters in a word
The lesson
You know two letters can make one sound, like 'sh'. Some sounds use three letters instead. That is called a trigraph.
Look at chair. The letters a, i, r make one sound: air. Say ch-air.
The letters ear can sound two ways. In hear, ear sounds like eer. In bear, ear sounds like air.
When you see three letters together, try saying them as one sound.
A trigraph is three letters that make one sound, like 'igh' in night or 'air' in chair.
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