Sentence Picks

The Sentence Picks worksheet helps students strengthen digraph recognition by choosing the correctly spelled beginning digraph that completes each sentence. Learners read each sentence carefully and compare pairs such as whip/ship or chill/shill, using both phonics knowledge and context clues to determine the correct choice. This activity builds decoding accuracy, reinforces visual discrimination of similar digraphs, and supports fluent reading through sentence-level practice.

Key Learning Objectives

• Skill Focus: Selecting correct beginning digraphs (wh, sh, ch) within sentences
• Contextual Reading: Using sentence meaning to confirm accurate word recognition
• Grade-Level Alignment: Appropriate for Grades 1, 2, and 3
• Fluency Development: Improving accuracy and confidence with digraph words in text
• Decoding Precision: Distinguishing between visually and phonetically similar spellings

Teacher & Parent Features

• Reinforces digraph spelling through meaningful sentence context
• Strengthens comprehension alongside targeted phonics instruction
• Encourages careful rereading and comparison of word choices
• Supports independent work, small-group instruction, or phonics review
• Builds confidence for encountering digraph words in longer reading passages

The Sentence Picks worksheet effectively combines phonics and comprehension, helping students make accurate, confident digraph choices while reading connected text.

This worksheet is part of our Beginning Digraphs Worksheets collection.