Digraph Worksheets
Twelve digraph worksheets for sh, ch, th, wh, ph, ck and ng. Spanish pages practice ch, ll, rr, qu and gu with Spanish words and Spanish spelling rules.
Ages 5-8
Updated October 2026
Curated by 
Poppy Fox
SH words
The sh set, and the gentlest of the four: sh sits at the front of shop, ship, shell and shape, and at the end of brush, wish, fish, dish and fresh.
SH words, practice 1
Eight sh words to copy out and circle: brush, shape, fresh, shell, shut, wish, dish and fish.
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SH words, practice 2
Only di_h and s_ell remove part of the sh; the other six take a vowel or the r out of b_ush.
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SH words, practice 3
Two groups and a written rule, drawn from shop, wish, shell, shape, fresh, fish, brush and dish.
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Ten ch words over three sheets, and ch behaves much like sh: chop, chat, chin and chest open a word, while march, peach, lunch, bench, much and teach close one.
CH words, practice 1
Copying practice for ch at both ends of a word: march, peach, chop, chat, lunch, bench, chin and teach.
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CH words, practice 2
Missing letters in be_ch, lun_h, ch_p, ma_ch, mu_h, c_at, pe_ch and tea_h, where much has replaced chin.
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CH words, practice 3
Sentence writing from chat, much, bench, chest, teach, peach, chop and chin, with eight numbered lines for six words.
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Two different sounds sharing one spelling: the voiced th of this, that, then, them and other, and the unvoiced th of thin, thick, bath and math. The sheets never separate them, so you should.
TH words, practice 1
The th bank that mixes both sounds without saying so: other, thin, this, bath, with, thick, math and that.
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TH words, practice 2
Fill-in work on bath, other, then, this, thin, that, thick and them, with then and them new to the set.
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TH words, practice 3
Sorting then, thin, with, this, bath, that, thick and math into two groups, then writing the rule underneath.
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The leftovers, four patterns on one page: wh in when, whale, wheel and whip, ph in phone and photo, ck in clock and duck, ng in ring and song. They share nothing but being taught last, so run it as a review rather than a lesson.
WH, PH, CK and NG, practice 1
Copy and circle whale, wheel, when, whip, phone, clock, ring and song: four wh words against one ph and one ck.
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WH, PH, CK and NG, practice 2
Eight blanks, one letter gone from each: ri_g, w_en, pho_o, p_one, so_g, clo_k, w_eel and wh_le.
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WH, PH, CK and NG, practice 3
Six sentences from duck, when, ring, phone, photo, clock, song and whip: two words for each of the four patterns.
Download PDFFour digraph families, twelve sheets
A digraph is two letters that make one sound. The sets here are sh, ch, th, and then a mop-up page that puts wh, ph, ck and ng together. Each family gets the same three sheets in the same order: copy the bank and circle the pattern, fill in a missing letter, then think. Print them in that order. The copying sheet is the one that introduces the words, and the other two assume the child has already met them.
Where the fill-in sheets actually bite
The missing letter is usually not the digraph. On the sh sheet only di_h and s_ell take out part of the sh itself; b_ush loses its r, and f_sh, w_sh and fr_sh lose vowels. Same story in the ch set: be_ch is missing an n, ma_ch an r. So a child cannot answer on autopilot, they have to match whole words against the bank. One snag to know about before you hand it over: sh_p appears twice on the sh sheet and the bank holds both ship and shop, so either answer is defensible on either line.
The two sorting sheets, solved
Sheet three of the sh set and of the th set asks for two groups and a written rule. The sh one has a single clean answer, position: shop, shell and shape at the front, wish, fresh, fish, brush and dish at the end. The th one splits two ways and both are right. By position it is then, thin, this, that and thick against with, bath and math. By sound it is then, this, that and with against thin, bath, thick and math, and those four voiced words happen to be the small grammar words of English, which is the rule hiding underneath. Ask which one they chose.
The th problem worth naming out loud
Nothing on these pages tells a child that th has two sounds. The banks mix them freely: the buzzing th of this, that and other sits next to the hissing th of thin, thick and bath. Say the pair aloud with a hand on the throat before sheet one. Note too that with wobbles by accent, so on the sorting sheet it can honestly land in either group.
