ELA21.2.10d

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.10d

Decode and encode words with consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and combinations.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

  • Digraphs are two letter combination that represents a single phoneme sound in which neither letter represents its usual sound.
  • Trigraphs are three letter combinations that represents a single phoneme sound.
  • Combinations are two letters that frequently appear together and have an associated phoneme.

Skills

  • Accurately decode and encode words with consonant digraphs, such as sh, ch ,th, ph, wh.
  • Accurately decode and encode words with consonant trigraphs, such as tch, dge.
  • Accurately decode and encode words with combinations, such as qu.

Understanding

  • Some words have special combinations of letters that can be decoded and encoded using their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences.

Vocabulary

  • Decode
  • Encode
  • Consonant digraphs
  • Trigraphs
  • Combinations

COS Examples

Examples: qu, sh, ch, th, ph, wh, tch, dge

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