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5 digraph games

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Looking for a game to help your child learn the sounds of beginning and ending digraphs?  Today I’m sharing five of them!

These five digraph games are great for teaching digraphs in kindergarten or first grade!

About a month ago I shared a giant set of Roll a Short Vowel games.  Today I’m sharing five Roll a Digraph games!

These five digraph games are great for teaching digraphs in kindergarten or first grade!

How to play

1. Grab a playing piece for each player and a die.  Print the board you’d like to use.

2. Put all playing pieces on Start, and take turns rolling the die.

3. When you roll the die, check the top of the board to see what picture to move to.  For example, in the above game, if you roll a five, you would move to the closest picture whose names starts with ph.

4. Keep taking turns until one person lands on the final space.

These five digraph games are great for teaching digraphs in kindergarten or first grade!

Some of the pictures were hard for my Four.  You’ll find a key with the picture names in the download, but it might be helpful to begin the game by naming all the pictures on the board.  Your child might need some reminders, but it will keep those tricky pictures from slowing down the game.

These five digraph games are great for teaching digraphs in kindergarten or first grade!

These games are a win for us because they’re quick and effective. I love that I can just print the board, and my son loves that we’re done with a single game in 5-10 minutes.  That makes these perfect for a quick review at home or a center activity in the classroom.

What you’ll get in the download

    • Game for ch, sh
    • Game for ch, sh, th
    • Game for ch, sh, th, wh, ph (pictured above)
    • Game for wr, wh, kn
    • Game for ending digraphs: sh, ch, th, ck

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42 Comments

  2. Cynthia

    Thank you Anna,
    This is great and I have used the game in my classroom, however I was wondering if I could send the activity to my parents since we are in distance learning?

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    • Anna G

      What is Opera, Aisha? I’m sorry you’re having trouble. If you can tell me the specific problem, I can try to help. What happens when you RIGHT click and choose “save link as”?

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  8. Jenia

    Thank you so much, Anna for your wonderfull games!!! They are so much fun at home with my kids and give very pleasant diversity when working in a class with even 10 year olds learning English as a foreign language. you are so creative and enthusiastic!!!

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  14. deb

    Thank you Anna for all of your hard work! It’s so nice that you share your lessons with us all. I’m looking forward to visiting this web site often.

    Deb Samar
    Montessori Preprimary teacher in Michigan

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  18. Linda Needles

    Hi Anna,
    You have many amazing games. I was trying to download the digraph game, but a message kept popping up saying the file was damaged. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks. Linda

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  19. Sarah

    My 7 year old is having trouble spelling words and so we’re giving your game a go as a tool for improving his spelling. We just finished the first game (i won) and he’s asked to play another 3 times. Looks like this game is a winner!

    Thank you!

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