How to Teach Digraphs in First Grade // phonics activities, ideas, and lessons for K-2

Looking for ideas and activities for how to teach phonics (digraphs) in your kindergarten, first grade, or second-grade classroom?! In this video, I share 5 steps and activities for you to get ideas about how to teach digraphs in your classroom!
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  • @shroukshabara4987
    @shroukshabara49872 жыл бұрын

    You are a perfect teacher! Thanks a million times. Really, what you are doing will not only change us, but also our students. deeply grateful.💙💙💙💙

  • @scottcornfoot-hillsidesrps5162
    @scottcornfoot-hillsidesrps51622 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! Everything that you post is always top-notch! I rely on you every day for my lessons and games… And the kids love them! Keep up the amazing work, I don’t know how you keep it all together! Hopefully next year I can make it into one of your clubs, I think I own everything that you have and I use everything often… Thank you again…

  • @msaxon98
    @msaxon98 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Susan. I like the idea of showing pictures & words first & allowing students time to determine the similarities & differences as an introduction.

  • @betsycollins7217
    @betsycollins72172 жыл бұрын

    Great ideas and resources! These will add a little variety to our Fundations lessons! Thank you!

  • @21maxn
    @21maxn2 жыл бұрын

    ALL GREAT IDEAS! I will follow your suggestions and perhaps send one home for homework practice! I look forward to using all of the digraphs resources!

  • @janetvillalobos5817
    @janetvillalobos58172 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much! You gave me ideas. I’m starting 2 letter blends this week ☺️

  • @beverleybrowne4714
    @beverleybrowne47142 жыл бұрын

    Love the read the room activity!

  • @moiradonnelly4068
    @moiradonnelly40682 жыл бұрын

    HI Susan! Your ideas and printables are really helping my kindergarteners this year! If you have a moment to make the Roll and Color game into a small packet that could be purchased on TpT, I would definitely get it! Thanks for all you do, it's making a big difference especially as we all learn to do this SoR more and more in our classrooms!

  • @MsChyou
    @MsChyou2 жыл бұрын

    I’d love to buy a whole phonics set of those read the room cards. So fun!

  • @Lulu-xp8my
    @Lulu-xp8my2 жыл бұрын

    So helpful and engaging. Thanks, Susan!

  • @jbm3224
    @jbm32242 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing with us. Great ideas!

  • @patriciadelaney7389
    @patriciadelaney73892 жыл бұрын

    I love the great tips Susan. I would like to learn more about the different programs you have.

  • @vivianariveramosquera6364
    @vivianariveramosquera6364 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for doing this video so detailed and for big groups classroom. Life safer. specially for brand new teachers of grade 1 and 2 like me. Thanks a lot.

  • @sellakids
    @sellakids2 жыл бұрын

    I love this video!! Thank you! 🤗

  • @normaescarcega709
    @normaescarcega7092 жыл бұрын

    Love your tips. Read the room is a great idea.

  • @vivinemcleary246
    @vivinemcleary2462 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tips. I really enjoy the video. I will definitely use some of these ideas with my remedial group.

  • @sandracalle4961
    @sandracalle4961 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing all the strategies and activities that you use. I'm an education student and I found your videos very helpful.

  • @rachidabouamir7192
    @rachidabouamir71922 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for all videos ! Very interesting

  • @JenniferSmith-nx6zf
    @JenniferSmith-nx6zf Жыл бұрын

    This helpful video has a lot of great ideas! Thank you!

  • @greicerezende2792
    @greicerezende27922 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for doing it as a whole class lesson! It really helped ;-)!

  • @carinbosman4785
    @carinbosman47852 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Susan. The practical approach will certainly help the struggling learner a lot

  • @allisonmcdade3758

    @allisonmcdade3758

    2 жыл бұрын

    As well as ELL students as they need graphics!

  • @annepinkelton8548
    @annepinkelton85482 жыл бұрын

    I would love the packet of "Read and Color" sheets!! Love this video and all of your resources:)

  • @jazzmax4989
    @jazzmax49892 жыл бұрын

    Susan, oh goodness 😍, I'm so excited about these ideas 💡 😆, thanks. Yes, could you do mini units for all letters, oh my gracious I would just love ❤ 😍 that. Hope that's not asking too much. I have to sign into SJT. I'm so glad you have part of the exercises in our SJT Club. Thanks so much 🤩

  • @MariaReyes-df9xw
    @MariaReyes-df9xw2 жыл бұрын

    I found your video very helpful Susan. I like your freebie, but would love to also use your Read and Color Game pages. It would be wonderful if you can make it available on TPT as a mini-lesson. My first graders I know would find them fun and they definately need to build more practice.

  • @debvanderweide3129
    @debvanderweide31292 жыл бұрын

    Great Tips Susan! I would love to have access to the "Read and Color" activity sheets. Thank you so much!!

  • @carolhale4331
    @carolhale43312 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the great ideas. When the kids find and color thumbs up, you can have them also write the c-h next to the thumbs up for extra writing practice. Just purchased the Phonics Find Its. This will be an amazing go-to resource for years. (Can't find the hop on the o-p page.) Blessings to you.

  • @moniquemesaplatz5202
    @moniquemesaplatz52022 жыл бұрын

    Great activities!

  • @lynnmcdonald6077
    @lynnmcdonald60772 жыл бұрын

    I’d love a mini unit geared towards K!

  • @carlycarlough7157
    @carlycarlough71572 жыл бұрын

    Awesome!!! Thank you!!!

  • @user-bi4wt3hu2j
    @user-bi4wt3hu2j2 ай бұрын

    Love to hear how you teach CVC words again. Good Teaching.

  • @christinedenadel8642
    @christinedenadel86422 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Susan! I would love the "Read and Color" activity sheets.

  • @sarahanderson95
    @sarahanderson952 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for all the tips, Susan! We're working on digraphs right now in my class and you gave me lots of ideas. I'd be totally interested in a mini unit like you mentioned!! Thanks. 💕

  • @victoriamurrell2718

    @victoriamurrell2718

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Susan for the great ideas. I would be interested in a mini-unit like you mentioned.

  • @CDP-ParaElas
    @CDP-ParaElas2 жыл бұрын

    God blessed for you work

  • @nannettemurchison2096
    @nannettemurchison20962 жыл бұрын

    Awesome tips

  • @patsysam7866
    @patsysam78662 жыл бұрын

    Yes i enjoy the lesson ,please up load mire activities on phonics

  • @allisonmcdade3758
    @allisonmcdade37582 жыл бұрын

    I am also working on digraphs in first grade. Would love access to "Read and Color". Thanks for all you do!

  • @amyfreeman4738
    @amyfreeman47382 жыл бұрын

    I’d love a mini unit for 2nd!

  • @alisnyder5862
    @alisnyder58622 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for all of the great ideas! I love the concept attainment strategy. I plan on using this strategy for math. I can see using it at the beginning of a unit, but also throughout. I would like to try this strategy for addition strategies. It could be a great way to help kids not only see the strategy, of rule, but also as a way to help them explain the rule ie +10 to a number.

  • @SusanJonesTeaching

    @SusanJonesTeaching

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love this idea, Ali!! Thank you for sharing!

  • @carinbosman4785
    @carinbosman47852 жыл бұрын

    The mini-unit you mention in your video sounds great.

  • @melissagaddini9165

    @melissagaddini9165

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would like the mini unit.

  • @user-sj6bq7rj1b
    @user-sj6bq7rj1b10 ай бұрын

    Hi Susan! Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your videos and how much I have learned from you even as a veteran teacher. I love using your whats the rule slides as I introduce a new sound. I teach 1st grade so use more of the complex sounds. Noticed there is not a /ng/ slide or one for consonant+le. This is a specific unit in the resource we use. Any chance you could add them? Again, thank you for all of your wonderful resources and knowledge.

  • @maryjanekitong7189
    @maryjanekitong71892 жыл бұрын

    Thank you mam for sharing your expertise in teaching digraph . I am a new grade 1 teacher and i need

  • @maryjanekitong7189

    @maryjanekitong7189

    2 жыл бұрын

    I really need this strategy because am handling grade 1 .

  • @annettebrown5198
    @annettebrown51982 жыл бұрын

    I would also love to have access to the Read and Color activities! Thank you

  • @catherinelarson4423
    @catherinelarson4423 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Susan! I am interested in using your resources to conduct my Thesis study with my 1st grade ELLs and English speaking students. I love the format of your lessons and am curious if you are able to create a bundle for me focusing on ch, th (voiceless) and sh digraphs? I would be more than happy to purchase the bundle! Thank you!

  • @monicamartinez1320
    @monicamartinez1320 Жыл бұрын

    Great tips! Where can I find the concept attainment cards for the What’s the Rule activity? Thanks

  • @amandalancaster3732
    @amandalancaster37322 жыл бұрын

    I’d love a mini unit ;)

  • @vinitapai1172
    @vinitapai1172 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your suggestions is it possible to record your class the way you teach practically.

  • @harbinderlalli5705
    @harbinderlalli57052 жыл бұрын

    Hello! I'm wondering where we can get a hold of the concept attainment cards for phonemic awareness? Also, do you by any chance do a read the room unit for different phonemes?

  • @kristakapp1167
    @kristakapp11672 жыл бұрын

    I'd love a mini unit

  • @brx23692
    @brx236923 ай бұрын

    Hi, Susan! Could I ask you, or any people following here, what's the basic structure for teaching phonics for the first time to kids? For example, start with single letter sounds and names (ahh - A bhhh - B cuhh -) Then move on to diagraphs (CL, SH) Then ONTO short vowel CVC words Then onto long vowel CVCC words... I suppose I'm missing a bunch of steps but I'd be interested where to look to start figuring that out. For K2 to G3. Thanks for any info!

  • @marybryson2441
    @marybryson24412 жыл бұрын

    Hi Susan, Love all your ideas but bench does not contain the "ch" sound. If you listen the actual sound is "sh", the n changes the sound.

  • @robinsmith4258
    @robinsmith42582 жыл бұрын

    Would you please send me the games of the phonics thank you very much I appreciate you coming on KZread and letting us know how to teach these kids thank you thank you thank you

  • @rubygonzalez1865
    @rubygonzalez18652 жыл бұрын

    Where can I find the pictures with the thumbs up and down?

  • @martashea159
    @martashea1592 жыл бұрын

    How do I get the activity cards?

  • @donnasobotka5534
    @donnasobotka55342 жыл бұрын

    Love the read the room activity. Do you have ones for the other digraphs? I would like to purchase it.

  • @SusanJonesTeaching

    @SusanJonesTeaching

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi Donna! I actually am adding a bunch of them for other skills (including more digraphs) over in the SJT Literacy Club!

  • @janellewierbowski3863
    @janellewierbowski38632 жыл бұрын

    Hi Susan! Thank you for your videos! Can you tell me where I can get those fundations sound cards like the CHIN card you showed?

  • @SusanJonesTeaching

    @SusanJonesTeaching

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi Janelle! That is through the Fundations Phonics Curriculum! I believe your school would need to purchase that!

  • @fancyflamingo123

    @fancyflamingo123

    2 жыл бұрын

    I use a set of phonics flashcards that cost a few dollars (probably at Target or dollar store). They have the digraph (and other graphemes included in the set), an image, and a list of words on the back.

  • @yvonnekhan7969
    @yvonnekhan79692 жыл бұрын

    Why do you use capital letters at this stage? I am a retired teacher and use mainly lower case letters.

  • @SusanJonesTeaching

    @SusanJonesTeaching

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi Yvonne! I just rewatched the video and I think you may be referring to the chalkboard scene where I show how to sound out the word, chin. If so, I would just like to clarify that we definitely use lower case letters with my students and I am sorry for any confusion! That was just an example my editor put in to make what I was saying more clear, but I can see how that would've been confusing! But yes, lowercase letters only when doing this with students!

  • @paulinawojdyga2385
    @paulinawojdyga23852 жыл бұрын

    I would be so gratefull if you could explain to me why are you saying that digraph „ai” makes one sound while I can hear two sounds there. I know that it is one phoneme, but it is a diphthong, which is why there are two sounds. And it feels weird to me, when I’m telling to the child that they make one sound while there are two… I have no idea how to deal with it. I’m not native English speaker as you probably guessed. It is clear to me whith ch, sh, th digraphs, but with vowel digraphs I don’t get it why everybody say that there is one sound. I'm so confused....

  • @hotmamisin

    @hotmamisin

    Ай бұрын

    There is one sound on “ai” because they are two vowels next to each other. When that happens, the second vowel makes the first vowel say its name and we do not hear the “I” sound at all. So the word CHAIN has 3 sounds: /CH/, /AI/, /N/

  • @numanafisa6358
    @numanafisa63582 жыл бұрын

    Op

  • @AngelaShea-kp9xx
    @AngelaShea-kp9xx3 ай бұрын

    Good grief I hope you got employment at central office! Not only your knowledge but your willingness to share with others.

  • @rebeccahull2986
    @rebeccahull29868 ай бұрын

    I am also working on digraphs in second grade. Would love access to "Read and Color". Thanks for all you do!

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