Description:

Digraph practice that feels like game day! Digraph Trail sends students racing along a pirate trail as they read sh, ch, th, wh, and ck words and complete a challenge on every space they land on.

What's included:

• A full-color game board with 14 digraph words (ship, chip, whale, duck, lunch, bath, chicken, shell, when, thick, fish, sock, much, thin)

• 8 challenge cards

• A blank game board, so students can build their own trail with digraph words

• Blank challenge cards for creating your own challenges

How to play: Players roll a die and move along the trail. On each word space, they read the word and draw a challenge card. Roll Again, Move Ahead Two, and Move Back Two spaces add a fun twist. The first player to reach the finish wins!

Skills practiced:

• Reading consonant digraphs: sh, ch, th, wh, ck

• Segmenting sounds (ex. ship: /sh/ /i/ /p/)

• Counting and labeling syllables

• Rhyming

• Using words in oral and written sentences

Perfect for: literacy centers, small groups, intervention, partner practice, early finishers, and family game night.

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd

Tags: phonics, digraphs, consonant digraphs, phonics games, literacy centers, science of reading, small group, decoding