ELA21.2.38f

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

ELA21.2.38f

Encode words with consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and combinations.

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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

  • Encode (spell) words with consonant digraphs, such as ph, gh, ch, sh, wh, th, ng.
  • Encode (spell) words with consonant trigraphs, such as tch, dge.
  • Encode (spell) words with combinations, such as qu.

Understanding

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

Vocabulary

  • Encode
  • Consonant digraphs
  • Trigraphs
  • Combinations

COS Examples

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

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