7 SH Worksheets for Digraph Learning

What is a Digraph?

A digraph is two letters that make one sound together. The most common digraphs to teach early readers are ch, th, wh, and sh.

When are students ready to learn digraphs? The goal is to help students build their skills and progress from easiest to more complex. So once they master some earlier literacy concepts like identifying letters and sounds, blending sounds to read words, identifying and reading closed syllables, and decoding cvc words, they’re ready to move on to learning about digraphs.

Tracing & Writing Worksheet

• Sh Tracing Practice: Students practice tracing and writing the letters s and h together using proper letter formation in both capital and lowercase forms.

If you’re working on this with older students, they can also practice recognizing and writing the digraph in cursive letters. You can grab our 135 no-prep cursive handwriting sheets for more practice, too!

Auditory Discrimination Worksheets

Students should practice saying words out loud, isolating the sounds, and listening closely to hear the /sh/ sound in words.

• Sh Word Coloring: Students color in pictures that begin with the /sh/ sound. For extra practice, have students say each word aloud while they color.
• Sh Picture Match: Students will match the sh digraph to the only word that begins with the /sh/ sound, combining visual and auditory discrimination skills.

Visual Discrimination Worksheets

Visual discrimination practice is important because lots of letters look alike! When learning the digraph sh, kids need to be able to distinguish the digraph sh from other groups of letters.

• Shells on Shore: Students continue practicing visual discrimination by finding the sh shells among other digraphs, then cut those out and paste them on the sea shore.
• Sheep Sh Digraph Hunt: Students practice visual discrimination as they search for the letters s and h together, hidden among other digraphs and blends.

Initial and Final Sounds Practice

• Sh or Ch: The digraphs sh and ch are commonly confused, and for good reason- the sounds they make are very similar! Students practice auditory discrimination as they learn to distinguish between the similar /ch/ and /sh/ sounds. The words are chain, shadow, shell, chair, shark, and shower.
• Initial & Final /sh/ Sounds: Students will find pictures that begin and end with the /sh/ sound, then finish writing in the decodable words in the spaces provided.

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