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📖 1st Grade · ELARF.1.3aUnit 2: Digraphs & blends

th, wh and ck

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🎯 Objective: Students read and spell words with th, wh and ck.

Lesson outline

  1. Mirror practice: tongue between teeth for th; lips round for wh.
  2. Build words: this, that, with, when, which, back, duck, sick.
  3. Teach the ck rule: after a short vowel at the end of a one-syllable word.
  4. Exit: spell thin, whip, sock.

Lesson 2 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.1.3a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Know sh, ch, th, wh, ck and ng
  • Read words with beginning and ending blends

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Short & long vowels, blends📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Digraphs & blends”

  1. sh and ch
  2. th, wh and ck
  3. Beginning blends
  4. Ending blends
  5. -ng and -nk
  6. Digraph and blend review

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