Digraphs (teachers, grade, learning) - Teaching -Issues affecting teachers - City-Data Forum

kettlepot · 07-14-2023, 01:14 AM

Apparently, nowadays letter pairs like "CH" "TH" "BR" "SH" "WH" "BL" "GL" "GR" "TR" "ST" "STR" "SCH" "SCR" etc, etc, are called digraphs and trigraphs.

However, when I was learning this in 1st or 2nd grade, there was a different word to describe these that I can't remember. Does anyone remember what that word used to be?

Oldhag1 · 07-15-2023, 05:17 PM

Consonant blend or blended consonants.

kettlepot · 07-16-2023, 02:23 AM

Thanks, but that doesn't ring a bell with me.

I think my teachers used a different word. I just can't remember it, and it bothers the hell out of me.

Frostnip · 07-16-2023, 04:11 AM

At the risk of being pedantic, consonant blends and digraphs are different. Digraphs are a combination of letters that makes a single phoneme, like "ch" as in cheese and "th" as in that. Blends are when multiple consonant phonemes are pronounced in a row without separation, like "br" as in brisk or "gr" as in great.

Are you maybe thinking of dipthongs?