Lesson 51: The ng Digraph
STEP 1: Phonological Awareness

Blending (4 sounds)
ring, song, lung

Segmenting (4 sounds)
sing, long, bang

STEP 3: Auditory Drill
i
wh
ch

STEP 5: Word Building
whip
graph
ziph
when
whap

STEP 6: New Concept
ng only shows up at the end of a word or syllable, never at the start. The back of the tongue lifts and holds against the roof of the mouth while the sound hums through the nose — hold it out long: /ng/. It is its own single nasal sound, not /n/ followed by /g/.

STEP 10 — Dictated Sentence
"The king got a big ring."