Blends and digraphs are terms used in phonics to describe specific combinations of letters that produce distinct sounds. A blend consists of two or more consonants that are pronounced together, with each sound retaining its identity, such as "bl" in "black" or "str" in "street." A digraph, on the other hand, is a pair of letters that combine to make a single sound, like "sh" in "ship" or "ch" in "chop." Both are important for teaching reading and pronunciation skills.
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A digraph is when more than one letter have a single sound...like /ea/ in bread or /ch/ in chat. Digraphs can come at the front, middle, or end of word and can be consonants or vowels. Blends are different because they have more than one letter but you can hear their sounds and are not one single sound. It is contrary to its name of 'blend'. --- The key thing is that the two letters are commonly linked when printed.
Vowel digraphs are 2 vowels that represent a single sound. They are ai, ay, ea, ee, ei, ey, ie, oa, oo, ow, and ue.
You define it because its the fastest and the easiest. You can define words such as words in a dictionary. Like sweat swan and swamp. Or west weather and weekend. And call cafeteria and camel. There are more than one thousand words to define. Or blends digraphs trigraphs and dipthongs.
The three major types of consonant blends are initial blends (blends at the beginning of a word, e.g., "bl"), final blends (blends at the end of a word, e.g., "st"), and medial blends (blends in the middle of a word, e.g., "sk").
26 (although many groups of letters (digraphs and trigraphs) form unique sounds in zulu such as "nhl". If you count all the digraphs and trigraphs as separate letters, then there are 60 letters).
a sound made by 2 letters (like small- the double l's)!
Write sentences using digraphs.
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The word digraph is a noun. The plural form is digraphs.
Diphthongs are two vowel sounds that blend together in one syllable, like in the word "coin." Digraphs are two letters that make one sound, like in the word "shoe."