As someone who once thought blends and digraphs were just fancy grammar terms that didn’t really matter, there was something that always seemed true. And that was that both were just combinations of letters that sounded the same—so why make the distinction? BUT OH HOW WRONG THAT WAS! You see, the idea that blends and digraphs work the same way in phonics could not have been further from the truth. Because the truth? Is that blends are two consonants where both sounds are heard (like st in star),