digraph
- noun
- /ˈdaɪˌɡræf/
- Specialized
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digrama
- When children learn to read, they often practice digraphs such as 'th' and 'ch'.
- vowel digraphs
Examples
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So here's a three state digraph, blue, orange, and green.
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"All learners will be able to differentiate between the sh and ch digraph sounds at the beginning of words with 90% accuracy" would be just one example out of literally thousands that are possible.
Academic text (1994) -
But when it was a digraph, it took longer.
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No wonder they don’t remember the digraphs from kindergarten.
Blog text (3) -
The same subtest was also administered to assess a student's ability to name the appropriate sound for each letter, with 36 total items including common digraphs and diphthongs.
Academic text (2015) -
In working with pre-alphabetic readers at Auburn University, we link each phoneme to background knowledge with an illustrated sound analogy coupled with its main letter or digraph.
Academic text (2012) -
She spoke about how her students' performance on the CORE Phonics Survey was a surprise, indicating that her students needed more assistance with vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and multisyllabic words.
Academic text (2014) -
A digraph is a combination of two letters that makes a single sound, like 'sh' in 'shoe'.
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In phonics, understanding digraphs helps students recognize the sounds of letter pairs.
Synonyms
A pair of letters that make one sound, like 'sh' in 'shoe'
A group of two or more letters that represent one sound in a word
A sign that stands for a sound, syllable, or word
How Many-Letters
Surface Forms
Morphology
digraph = di + graph
The word is built from the classical elements 'di-' meaning 'two' and 'graph', but the technical meaning 'two letters representing one sound' is only partly predictable for learners.
Etymology
Digraph comes from Greek parts di- meaning 'two' and graph meaning 'write', a root you also see in paragraph. So a digraph literally means 'two letters' that make one sound, like 'sh' in 'shoe'.
