Lesson Planning of Digraphs, Trigraphs and Their Positions Subject English Grade V

 

Lesson Planning of Digraphs, Trigraphs and Their Positions

Subject English

Grade V

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Articulate words containing digraphs, trigraphs and silent letters.

Information for Teachers

• Graph is a single letter that makes a single sound.
• Digraphs have two letters that make one sound.
• In digraphs, consonants or vowels and consonants join together to form a blend, which makes a single sound (phoneme), as; ‘p’ and ‘h’ combine to form ‘ph’, which make the /f/ sound (consonant digraph), ‘o’ and ‘u’ combine to form loud (vowel digraph), and ‘a’ and ‘w’ combine to form ‘saw’ (vowel-consonant blend).
• Digraphs can be used at the beginning (initial), middle or end (final) of a word.
• Some common vowel digraphs are, as; (‘oa’, ‘ow’, ‘ou’, ‘au’, ‘ee’. ‘ea’, ‘oo’, ‘ie’, ‘ue’, ‘ai’, ‘oi’, ‘oy’, ‘ay’, ‘ew’)(last three have consonants but sound as vowels).
• Trigraphs are a ‘phoneme’ which consists of three letters, as; ‘tch’ in catch, scratch, hatch, and match. ‘igh’ in night, sight, height, fight,  and right.
• You must practice words with digraphs and trigraphs through the year in different lessons, whenever new words are taught.
• A list of words containing digraph is given at the end of the plan. It should be used throughout the year. This will help to improve vocabulary and pronunciation.
• In this lesson digraphs and trigraphs are focused.

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk/marker, textbook, flash cards of graphs (letter that makes one sound), chart or poster of words with digraphs in the initial, middle, and final position(you can easily draw these pictures on a chart or make separate flashcards. Don`t cut these out. You can even bring some of these objects in class), or use the objects that are present in class e.g. three chairs or stools.

Introduction

• Write the following words on the board, as; check, chunk, phone, shine, thin, crunch, fish, cloth, etc.
• Ask students to notice the digraphs at initials and ending positions and pronounce them.

Development

Activity 1 Prepare the flash cards of the following digraphs: ‘ee’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘th’, ‘ph, and ‘oo’. Divide the students into small groups of four members each. Give each group a flash card of one digraph. Repeat the digraph if there are more groups. Ask them to write examples of vowel digraphs in middle or final positions in their notebooks. (Possible responses are: as; chips, chick, shop, share, that, phone, fish, sleep, father, fashion. Broom) When students will write their words, ask the members of each group to pronounce their words in turns for the whole class loudly. Correct the pronunciation and spellings of the words if it is required.

Activity 2 Display prepared flash cards of the digraphs on the board, as; chain, much, etc. Ask students to pronounce these words correctly and also ask them to

 

Activity 3 Prepare flash cards of different trigraphs, as; sight, height, catch, hatch, might, sight, fight, light, match, batch, butcher, slight. Students will work in groups and they will recognize trigraphs in the initial, middle and final positions. They will share their words with the whole class. Check their pronunciation while reading each word. Make sure that the students are familiar with the words you choose. Tell the meaning of the difficult words if it is required.

Sum up/ Conclusion

• Write the following digraph and trigraphs words on the board, as; (splash, phone, chew, creep, sight, catch,  and shell).
• Call some students to underline digraph and trigraphs in the given words in turn.
• Find the exercise related to the topic in the textbook.
• Students must do this exercise in the notebook or on the textbook.

Assessment

• Assess students` understanding when they make words and pronounce them.
• Focus must be on proper pronunciation.
• Suggested words for spelling test next week, as; they, this, father, fish, dish, now, bow, chin, chum, these, slight, such, and church.

Follow up

• Ask students to write the names of 5 objects and 5 animals, which contain the digraphs they have learnt in the lesson. Illustrate and color them if possible.
• You must practice words with these digraphs throughout the year in different lessons whenever new words are taught to improve students` vocabulary and pronunciation.
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