A phoneme is a unit of sound. A trigraph is three letters that work together to make one sound. The long 'igh' trigraph sounds like this:
The long 'igh' phoneme can be made in other ways.
It can be spelt 'ie', sometimes with a consonant between the 'i' and the 'e'. This is called a split digraph.
tie
knife
It can also be spelt using 'y'.
fly
In words such as 'I' and 'tidy' it is spelt with 'i' on its own.
In this activity, you can practise reading and writing different spellings of the long 'igh' phoneme.
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