Digraph PH Worksheets

Free printable digraph ph phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.

Grade: 1st-2nd Phase 4: Vowel Teams & Advanced Pattern: PH digraph (ph says /f/): phone, graph, dolphin

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1 Decodable Reading Passage

A short, decodable story embedding digraph ph words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.

Scott and the Phantom Dolphin

Skill: Digraph PH • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be

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Scott stood on the deck of the ship with his phone in his hand. His class wanted to see a dolphin, and he had told them he would bring back one good photo. Jen stood by his side and gazed at the waves.

"There!" Jen yelled. A dolphin rose up from the waves. Scott clicked. But the dolphin dove, and his photo showed just a fin. He tried again. Click! This time he got a wave. Then he tried once more and got a blank patch of blue with no dolphin at all.

"That dolphin is a phantom," said Scott. "He is there, and then he is gone. I give up." He set his phone down on the bench and slumped.

Just then, the dolphin jumped right by the ship. He came down with a smack, and a wave as big as an elephant crashed over Scott. Scott stood there dripping, with his mouth open. In back of him, the dolphin poked his nose up and grinned.

Click! Jen had grabbed the phone. "I got him!" she said. "And I got you, too."

Scott looked at the photograph and had to laugh. There he was, wet from his cap to his socks, and there was the dolphin with a big grin. "What a triumph," he said. "My class will like this one best. I wish I could get that dolphin's autograph!"

Circle or highlight all the words where PH says /f/ (like phone and graph). How many did you find?

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2 Word Sort

Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: PH at the Start vs PH in the Middle or at the End.

PH at the Start

PH in the Middle or at the End

phone

photo

phase

phrase

phonics

phantom

photograph

graph

dolphin

elephant

alphabet

trophy

pamphlet

triumph

sphinx

telephone

headphone

microphone

saxophone

autograph

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3 Phrasing Practice Cards

Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.

a photo of a dolphin

the elephant on the phone

a trophy and a graph

the alphabet phrase

a saxophone at the microphone

an autograph on a pamphlet

headphone on his ear

a photograph of a sphinx

a phase of the moon

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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)

Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!

Decodable RAN Chart — Digraph PH

photograph

autograph

phone

graph

triumph

graph

triumph

phone

graph

phone

triumph

photograph

autograph

photograph

autograph

phone

Target words: phone, photograph, graph, triumph, autograph

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5 Word Search

Find and circle the digraph ph words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce digraph ph word recognition.

Digraph PH Word Search

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ALPHABET DOLPHIN ELEPHANT GRAPH PHANTOM PHASE PHONE PHONICS PHOTO PHOTOGRAPH PHRASE TROPHY

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Free Printable Digraph PH Worksheets

These free digraph ph worksheets provide structured phonics practice for PH digraph (ph says /f/): phone, graph, dolphin. Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort that separates ph at the start of a word from ph in the middle or at the end, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.

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