SPELLING LESSON 4

Some of our consonants also have more than one sound. We have also certain combinations of consonants which represent one sound. This combination of two letters to represent one sound is called a digraph, as gh, in cough, ch in church. A digraph may either be a combination of two consonants or of two vowels or of a vowel and a consonant. The following table contains the consonants which have more than one sound:

c—k as in cat

c—s as in vice

g—j as in ginger

g—hard as in go

s—sh as in sure

s—zh as in usual

s—soft as in also

s—z as in does

x—soft as in extra

x—gz as in exist

The following table gives the digraphs most commonly used:

ng—as in ring, tongue

ch—as in church and much

ch—k as in chasm

ch—sh as in chagrin

th—as in then, those

th—as in thin and worth

ce—sh as in ocean

ci—sh as in special

dg—j as in edge

gh—f as in rough

ph—f as in sylph

qu—kw as in quart

qu—k as in conquer

sh—as in shall

si—sh as in tension

si—zh as in vision

ti—sh as in motion

The use of these digraphs gives us a number of additional sounds. Notice the use of the consonants which have more than one sound and also the digraphs in the spelling lesson for the week. Mark the consonants and digraphs.

Monday

Commence

Certain

General

Gradual

Sugar

Tuesday

Soldier

Season

Pleasure

Exact

Exercise

Wednesday

Singular

Chemistry

Chapter

Machine

Changing

Thursday

Theory

Thither

Ocean

Racial

Budget

Friday

Philosophy

Enough

Quorum

Bouquet

Phonetic

Saturday

Permission

Asia

Attention

Marshall

Martial

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