Flashcards - Trigraphs
The Flashcards – Trigraphs resource provides illustrated word cards to help students recognise and decode common trigraphs such as air, ear, igh, tch, and dge. Each card features high-frequency vocabulary supported by visuals, making them ideal for hands-on phonics instruction, small group activities, and literacy centres.
This resource is perfect for consolidating tricky trigraphs in a fun and accessible way.
Learning goals
- We are learning to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words, including some compound words.
- We are learning to use most letter-sound matches including vowel diagraphs, less common long vowel patterns, e.g. igh, consonant clusters and silent letters, e.g. knife, thumb, when reading and writing words of one or more syllables.
- We are learning to understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations, e.g. the long ‘a’ sound in stay, weight, able, make.
- We are learning to use most letter-sound matches including vowel diagraphs, less common long vowel patterns, e.g. ight, consonant clusters and silent letters, e.g. knife, thumb, when reading and writing words of one or more syllables.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
• Print cards in colour groups based on trigraphs for easy sorting.
• Use fewer cards or trigraphs for focused practice.
• Display on a sound wall or use with phonics flipbooks.
Extensions
• Have students use each word in a sentence or short story.
• Turn cards into a matching or memory game.
• Use cards in dictation or writing warm-up activities.