Snowflake Digraph Hunt: Winter Digraph Worksheets (Free PDF)

A winter digraph activity that turns reading into a color-by-code hunt. Forty snowflakes each hold one word with ch, sh, th or wh. The child reads the word, finds the digraph and colors the snowflake with its color: blue for ch, purple for sh, green for th and orange for wh. A finished page looks like a pattern, and a wrong color is easy to spot.

What’s inside

• Two pages with twenty snowflakes each, five words for every digraph per page.
• ch words (chip, chin, chop, chat, much, rich, such, lunch, bench, chill), sh words (ship, shop, shed, fish, dish, wish, shin, shut, cash, brush), th words (thin, then, that, this, with, bath, moth, path, thud, math) and wh words (when, whip, whiz, whim, which, whisk, whale, wheel, white, whisper).
• A color key at the top and four QR codes, one for each digraph sound.

How to use in class

1. Teach the four digraphs first: two letters, one sound. Listen to the QR sounds together.
2. Children read a snowflake aloud, point to the digraph and then color.
3. Count how many snowflakes of each color are on the page. Each color should have five.
4. Ask which digraph comes at the start and which at the end (fish, with).

Watch out for

• The th sound is voiced in this and then and unvoiced in thin and thud. Both are fine here; the color is the same.

Who it’s for

Grade 1 and any older learner meeting digraphs. Children should read CVC words fluently first.

Where it fits: Stage 4 — Digraphs & Consonant Blends

Goes well with

• Digraphs List (Free PDF): ch, sh, th, ph, wh, ng
• How to Teach Phoneme Blending: 5 Steps from /c/-/a/-/t/ to Reading
• Digraph Worksheets (all)
• Hear the sh sound