READ/SPELL – trigraph ‘igh’

Reading / Spelling
  • This resource pack of 7 pages covers hearing, reading, spelling and using phonetic words with trigraph ‘igh’
  • The trigraph is highlighted grey and shows where ‘i’, ‘g’ and ‘h’ work together to make one sound (light)
  • The same sound can also be represented by another grapheme - ‘magic e with i' (bike)
  • Both graphemes are compared and used in the activity
  • Click on the loudspeaker icon for sound
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Last updated
21st March 2026

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A little more info...

  • If a word is phonetic it means the word can be sounded out using the phonetic sound of individual letters, blends, digraphs and trigraphs

  • Words such as lighter can be divided into two syllables - light/er

  • Breaking words into syllables helps with both reading and spelling

  • A grapheme is the letter or group of letters that represents one phoneme (one unit of sound).

  • Every word in this activity is a real English word

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