1st Grade ELA Quiz: Know Consonant Digraph Spelling Sounds

What this quiz covers

This quiz focuses on Know Consonant Digraph Spelling Sounds, giving you a quick way to practice the rules, question types, and explanations that matter most for 1st Grade ELA.

How to use this quiz

Try each quiz question before looking at the correct answer. Use the explanations to review missed ideas, then come back to similar questions until the pattern feels familiar.

Question 1

1. milk
2. chat
3. chip
4. much (correct answer)

Explanation: The word much ends with the /ch/ sound. Choice D is correct. Milk ends with /k/, and chat and chip begin with ch but end with /t/ and /p/.

Question 2

1. sh (correct answer)
2. is
3. fi

Explanation: Sh makes one sound in fish, so that is the correct answer. Is is two separate sounds, not one blended sound. Fi is also two separate sounds, a consonant and a vowel, not one blended sound. Looking for the two letters that blend into a single new sound helps you find the correct answer.

Question 3

1. sh (correct answer)
2. fi
3. is
4. ih

Explanation: In the word fish, the letters s and h work together to make one sound, /sh/. Choice A is correct. Fi, is, and ih do not make the /sh/ sound.

Question 4

1. sh (correct answer)
2. op
3. ho
4. s

Explanation: The letters sh work together to make one sound at the start of 'shop.' 'Op' and 'ho' are just random letter groups from the word, not a single sound unit. 'S' by itself is only one letter, not the two letters that team up to make the sh sound.

Question 5

1. ha
2. wh (correct answer)
3. at

Explanation: We are finding digraphs in words. In 'what', the letters 'wh' work together. They make one /w/ sound at the start.

Question 6

1. ha
2. th (correct answer)
3. at
4. ta

Explanation: In the word that, the letters t and h work together to make one sound, /th/. Choice B is correct. Ha, at, and ta do not make the /th/ sound.

Question 7

1. that (correct answer)
2. chat
3. ship

Explanation: We are finding the /th/ sound. The word 'that' starts with 'th'. Chat starts with 'ch' and ship starts with 'sh'.

Question 8

1. ha
2. t
3. at
4. th (correct answer)

Explanation: The letters th together make the /th/ sound at the start of that. Ha is not even part of the word that. T alone only makes the /t/ sound, not /th/. At is the ending of the word, but it does not make the /th/ sound. Th is the pair of letters that makes the sound.

Question 9

1. ip
2. ch (correct answer)
3. ci
4. hi

Explanation: The letters ch make the /ch/ sound at the beginning of chip. Ip is the ending part of the word, not the /ch/ sound. Ci and hi are not letter patterns found in chip at all. Ch is the correct pair of letters that makes this sound.

Question 10

1. cat
2. stop
3. chip (correct answer)

Explanation: We are finding words with digraphs. The word 'chip' has the digraph 'ch' at the beginning. Cat and stop don't have this digraph.

Question 11

1. much (correct answer)
2. that
3. ship

Explanation: This asks about ending sounds. The word 'much' ends with the /ch/ sound. You can hear 'ch' at the end when you say it.

Question 12

1. stop
2. cap
3. that (correct answer)

Explanation: That is correct because it starts with the th sound, like the word this. Stop begins with the st sound, not th. Cap begins with the k sound, not th. That is the only word with the th sound at the start.

Question 13

1. ship
2. time
3. white (correct answer)

Explanation: The word white starts with the wh digraph. Ship starts with the sh digraph instead. Time starts with the t sound, not wh.

Question 14

1. ph (correct answer)
2. ho
3. ot

Explanation: The letters ph make one sound together in photo, the f sound. Ho is just two letters from the middle of the word and does not make one blended sound on its own. Ot is also just letters from the word, not a special one-sound spelling pattern.

Question 15

1. op
2. s
3. sh (correct answer)

Explanation: This asks about spelling sounds. The /sh/ sound in 'shop' is spelled 'sh.' These two letters work together.

Question 16

1. white (correct answer)
2. with
3. ship
4. chat

Explanation: White begins with the letters w and h together (wh). Choice A is correct. With begins with just w, ship begins with sh, and chat begins with ch.