The GH Sound

Videos and songs to help First Grade kids learn how to pronounce consonant digraph GH that has the F sound or the hard G sound. Learn words that begin or end with GH.
There are also some words where GH may be silent.

The following diagram shows some examples of words with gh: F sound, G sound, and silent. Scroll down the page for more examples and solutions.

 

Learn how to pronounce the GH sound
Learn how to pronounce the ‘gh’ sound in English. In this pronunciation lesson you will learn about the hard ‘g’ sound, silent ‘g’ sound, /f/ sound, and the compound noun sound.

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Learn about the digraph “gh”
A digraph is when two letter sounds or phonemes combine to make one sound or phoneme.
In some words the gh has the sound of f. Learn about the digraph gh as you listen to the f sound in words that contains the gh digraph.

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Phonics with Silent GH and GH that Sounds Like F

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