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Knowledge
- Consonant blends are a combination of two or three consonants in which each grapheme represents a phoneme sound.
- Digraphs are two letter combination that represents a single phoneme sound in which neither letter represents its usual sound.
Skills
- Encode (spell) words with two-consonant blends, such as st, sm, sn, sl, cl, dr, br, bl.
- Encode (spell) words with three-consonant blends, such as str, scr, spl, spr.
- Encode (spell) words with a digraph paired with a consonant blend, such as thr, squ.
Understanding
- When spelling a word with a two- or three-letter consonant blend, each consonant produces its sound.
- When spelling a word with a digraph and a blend, the digraph will be represented by two letters that make one sound, combined with a consonant that produces its sound.
Vocabulary
- Encode
- Two-consonant blends
- Three-consonant blends
- Digraphs
