H Digraphs Fill in the Blank Worksheet

When two consonants team up to make one brand-new sound, phonics readers call them digraphs. The four h digraphs — sh, ch, wh, and th — turn up in hundreds of everyday words like ship, chick, whale, and thumb, so first graders who can spot them read more smoothly and spell more confidently. This H Digraphs Fill in the Blank Worksheet gives students focused practice hearing those two-letter teams inside real sentences instead of in isolated drills.

The page opens with a six-word box, then asks students to read each sentence and write the word that finishes it. A second section puts five more words in front of them and asks them to circle the two letters that make one sound. Used as morning work, a literacy-center rotation, a homework page, or a quick check after a phonics mini-lesson, this 1st grade consonants worksheet takes about ten minutes and needs nothing more than a pencil.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 6 word-bank fill-in-the-blank sentences and 5 circle-the-digraph words

Three things make this practice stick. First, every blank sits inside a complete sentence, so students use meaning as well as sound to choose the right word — the same strategy strong readers use in a real book. Second, the word box holds exactly one answer for each sentence, which means guessing does not work and students have to look carefully at the letters. Third, the circling section slows readers down long enough to notice the digraph inside a word, building the visual habit that later powers fluent decoding. Because the H Digraphs Fill in the Blank Worksheet includes a complete answer key, students can check their own work and teachers can grade the page in seconds.

Keep the momentum going away from the page. Go on a digraph hunt through a favorite picture book and tally every sh, ch, wh, and th your child finds. Write the four digraphs on index cards, call out a word, and let students slap the card that matches the sound they hear. Build a word ladder that changes ship to shop to chop to chip. Sort magnetic letters into digraph pairs on the refrigerator, or challenge students to write one silly sentence that uses three digraph words at once.

Related Resources

• H Digraphs Worksheet – Word Bank
• Consonant Digraphs CH SH TH WH Activity
• Consonant Digraphs Worksheet
• 44 Sounds of the English Language (Have Fun Teaching video)