Free Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable

A fun Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable for kids to work on matching digraph letters with picture that start with those digraphs.

You will have kids matching groundhogs and their shadows with this fun matching activity for beginning digraphs. And it is a fun holiday theme for February 2nd that kids will love.

A great digraph printable for kids in first grade and second grade.

The Free Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable is a great addition to the groundhog printables and digraph printables on the site.

What is a digraph?

A digraph is two letters together that make one sound. Digraphs can be made up of vowels or consonants.

Some examples of consonant digraphs would be ch-, -ch, -ck, gh, kn-, ph, qu-, sh-, -sh, th-, -th, wh-, and wr-.

Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable

The Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable features groundhogs with the digraph letters and a matching picture of the digraph on the groundhog’s shadow.

You have the following beginning digraphs: ch-, kn-, ph, qu-, sh-, th-, wh-, and wr-.

This is a great printable for kids in first grade and second grade who are working on digraphs.

Groundhog with Digraph Letters

You have a groundhog with a matching digraph letters. You have a ground with the following beginning digraphs: ch-, kn-, ph, qu-, sh-, th-, wh-, and wr-.

Groundhog Shadows with Pictures

You have the shadow of the groundhog with a black and white picture on the shadow. Each picture on the shadow matches a beginning digraph that is on the groundhogs.

A simple way to look at a picture and figure out the digraph.

You have the following digraph matches:
ch – chair
kn – knee
ph – photo
qu – quail
sh – ship
th – thumb
wh – wheel
wh – wreath

Things to use with the Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable

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• printer
• white cardstock
• laminator
• laminating pouches
• 1 inch ring
• groundhog writing paper
• digraph coloring pages

Ways to Use the Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable

You are going to see a few ways that we have used the groundhog beginning digraph matching printable.

Preparing the Groundhog Digraph Printables

You are going to want to print the groundhog digraphs printables on cardstock. This helps them last longer in learning centers. You can also laminate the cards. Do what you best for how you are going to use them.

Setting up a Groundhog Digraph Matching Center

You can see a simple set up below for groundhog digraph matching center. There is the shadow on the right and the groundhog with letters on the left. You could also do this activity in a pocket chart.

You can review the cards and letters with kids before they start for kids who are just learning digraph. For older kids you can challenge them to figure out the matching digraphs.

You can see how we matched the correct digraphs below. You can ask kids why they picked the digraph that they did.

You can see ph with the picture of the photo.

Matching the Groundhog Digraphs on Rings

You can also have fun by putting the digraph cards on rings. This way you can flip through the two sets of cards to find the matching digraph letters and picture with beginning digraph sound.

This keeps the cards together and is easier for kids who might mix up or not do well with a table matching activity.

Write the Digraph Words & Letters

If you want to add a little handwriting with the groundhog digraph matching activity, then add the groundhog writing paper.

This lets you write the digraph and the matching word. You can help younger kids with the words and challenge older kids to write the words. A fun way to add a little handwriting and digraph matching at the same time.

More Digraph Printables to Use

Digraph Coloring pages have mix of beginning and ending digraphs consonants with tracing and drawing their own digraph and an option for writing the digraph and drawing the own digraph. Easy no-prep pages for kids to use. And they work prefect with the groundhog digraph matching printable

Digraph Coloring Pages Selling Set

The Digraph Coloring Pages have the following digraphs: ch-, -ch, -ck, -gh, gh-, kn, -ng, ph-, qu-, sh-, -sh, th-, -th, wh-, wr-.

What you will find in the Digraph Coloring Pages printables

• Digraphs: ch-, -ch, -ck, -gh, gh-, kn, -ng, ph-, qu-, sh-, -sh, th-, -th, wh-, wr-
• Two options for each digraph
• Color, trace and make you own digraph
• Color, write and make you own digraph
• 29 pages
• Price: $3.50

What you will find in the Free Groundhog Beginning Digraph Matching Printable

• Digraph picture and digraph letter matching with groundhogs
• Beginning Digraphs: ch-, kn-, ph, qu-, sh-, th-, wh-, and wr-
• 2 pages

More Groundhog Printables for Kids

Groundhog Weekly No-Prep Packs has weekly packs with a winter theme. They have PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. You will find 4 pages of printables for each with. They have a mix of math and language activities.

Groundhog Day Sequencing Set has two sets for kids to work on. You can see the shadow or not see it. A great way to work on the order of events.

Groundhog Shape Find is a great way to work on tracing shapes and then finding shapes with shape word and geometric shape. This is a great no-prep printables for kindergarten.

You can have fun with some addition with the Groundhog Spinning Addition. It has three levels of learning: single, double, and triple addition. This addition printable is great and can grow as kids learn.

Groundhog Bundle for Prek & Kindergarten has all the prek and kindergarten printables in my store in the bundle to get all of the activities together.

Check out all the fun Groundhog Day Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com