What is a digraph?
A digraph is a group of two successive letters whose phonetic value is a single sound.
Ideas
Here you have some general ideas to teach blends with your children:
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Name as many things that begins with…. (use the digraph you are teaching or reviewing)
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Say a word that rhymes with….
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Does ……sound like ……..?
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Where is the sound…..in this word?
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List words that ends with ….
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Go on a …..sound hunt .
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Can you name an animal that begins/ ends with …..?
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Can you draw a fruit that begins / ends with ….?
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Play “I spy a word that begins with…”
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Make riddles using the blend you want to introduce or practise.
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Write silly sentences beginning with that digraph.
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