Digraph Games – 18 PowerPoint Games with Examples of Digraphs in Sentences

Digraph Games – 18 Interactive PowerPoint Files

This bundle includes 18 Wheel of Fortune inspired games with examples of different types of digraph words in sentences. When playing these digraph games, students must choose one letter at a time to help guess the sentences (and digraphs) that are written behind the highlighted tiles. When the game is finished, the teacher can click on the information button to circle the digraphs on the screen and confirm whether or not the students’ guesses are correct.

Instructions on how to use these games are included (it’s very easy) along with a “Digraph Games List” that displays the following digraph sentences from each separate game. A printable list of additional activity ideas (shown below) that can be used with these games has also been included.

These games are not grade-specific and have been used with primary students across different grade levels. They have also been used with special education students.

Digraph Games List

CH – Game 1: The cheeky chap munched on chips in his kitchen.

CH – Game 2: The chubby chick became itchy and screeched!

CH – Game 3: The witch’s chamber had a chair, bench and chimney.

CK – Game 1: The wicked, black duck tricked the unlucky chick.

CK – Game 2: He picked the lock of the truck at the dock.

CK – Game 3: The flock of chickens clucked as they snacked.

PH – Game 1: His phone had a photo of his nephew’s trophy.

PH – Game 2: Joseph’s sphere-shaped sapphire was a phoney.

PH – Game 3: The orphan had a phobia with dolphins and elephants.

SH – Game 1: She wore her stylish shawl and her shiny shoes.

SH – Game 2: The selfish shrimp shouted harshly at the shy fish.

SH – Game 3: Shaun paid the cashier for the shirt on the shelf.

TH – Game 1: Their mother loathed the northern weather.

TH – Game 2: Theo had faith in his empathetic therapist.

TH – Game 3: Three filthy thieves threw thongs at the sleuth.

WH – Game 1: The whale whined to the narwhal about the whiting.

WH – Game 2: The white whippet whizzed past the wharf.

WH – Game 3: Whitney put the wheat and whey in the wheelbarrow.

Digraph Games: Additional Activity Ideas

1. Incorporate some numeracy into the games by giving points to each team/student for every correct letter. You could give more points for less common letters (e.g. x or z) and less points for more common letters (e.g. e, a or t).

2. Use the games to have a tournament over different days/weeks where you only play one game (or one set of games) at a time. Students can keep record of, and tally up their scores.

3. Get students to list as many other words as they can with the same letters/sounds as those in the game sentence.

4. Get students to create and write their own sentences with words that have the same letters/sounds as those in the game sentence.

5. Get students to create “tongue twisters” with the letters/sounds in the game sentence (you can tie this concept in with alliteration if you’re teaching figurative language).

6. Get students to create a poster, diorama (or any other type of art project) that focuses on a set of words with the same letters/sounds.

7. Ask students if they can identify any other digraphs with different letters/sounds in the game sentence.

8. Get students to identify different parts of the sentence (e.g. the subject and verb), and to discuss whether it is a simple, compound or complex sentence.

9. Get students to look for interesting synonyms that they could use to replace words in the sentences and make them more interesting.

10. Get students to alter the entire meaning of a sentence by replacing a single word with a new word.