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 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.
- 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 use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words, including some compound words.
- 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.
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.