Scavenger Search

The Scavenger Search worksheet invites students to explore their home or classroom to find real objects that begin with specific digraphs: sh, ch, wh, th, and ph. Learners identify one item for each digraph and write the object’s name in the provided space. This active, movement-based task helps students connect phonics patterns to everyday vocabulary while strengthening auditory discrimination and spelling skills. By linking spoken words to written forms, students deepen their understanding of how beginning digraphs appear in real-world language.

Key Learning Objectives

• Skill Focus: Identifying beginning consonant digraphs in real-world vocabulary
• Sound-Symbol Awareness: Connecting spoken words to written digraph patterns
• Grade-Level Alignment: Appropriate for Grades K, 1, and 2
• Vocabulary Development: Expanding word knowledge through environmental exploration
• Encoding Practice: Writing discovered words to reinforce spelling and recall

Teacher & Parent Features

• Promotes active, hands-on learning beyond the worksheet page
• Encourages independence, curiosity, and engagement with surroundings
• Reinforces digraph sounds through listening, speaking, and writing
• Ideal for homework, phonics centers, or movement breaks
• Supports diverse learning styles through kinesthetic and auditory practice

The Scavenger Search worksheet helps students apply phonics knowledge in authentic contexts, strengthening beginning digraph recognition while making learning interactive, meaningful, and memorable.

This worksheet is part of our Beginning Digraphs Worksheets collection.