/g/ Sound Spelled GH Word List
By Rodney Everson
The /g/ sound has five common spellings, g, gg, gh, gu, and gue.
In the OnTrack Reading curriculum, the digraph "gh" represents only the /g/ sound, whereas other curricula sometimes treat it as also representing the /f/ sound at the end of words like laugh and cough. The approach at OnTrack Reading, treating "ugh" as a digraph representing the /f/ sound in the few words it occurs, simplifies matters considerably.
Of the 7,000 words in the database constructed from a popular children’s dictionary, five of them are words with the /g/ sound spelled "gh".
Note on the word divisions: Each word is divided into chunks determined by the unique and effective OnTrack Reading Multisyllable Method. The chunks are not syllables.
Comprehensive Word Lists
Features over 100 word lists built from 7,000 words input from a children's dictionary. Lists are organized by vowel and consonant sounds and cover most common spellings. Useful in the classroom for building curriculum aids such as short stories that emphasize specific sounds and spellings. Multisyllable words are also included, chunked according to the method taught in the OnTrack Reading Advanced Code Phonics Workbook.