Hear it, mark it, write it
Say "chin," "shin," "thin" slowly and have kids touch their lips for each start. Is your tongue between your teeth? That's /th/! Then they circle the matching digraph on the page. Feeling the sound in your mouth makes ch, sh and th much easier to tell apart.
Why it works: the National Reading Panel found that systematic, explicit phonics teaching clearly improves how children learn to read.
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