An activity challenges scholars to show what they know about onset and rime. Learners choose from a stack of picture cards and give onset and rhyming clues to see if their partners can guess the word they are holding.

Concepts

phonemic awareness, phonemes, letter-sound correspondence, phonics, onsets and rimes, rhyming words, emergent reading

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Additional Tags

onset, phonemic awareness, rhyming words, rime, letter sound correspondence, early reading skills, english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Perform the activity with the whole class as an example, then assign it in small groups

Classroom Considerations

•  Includes 12 different word cards that can be printed and laminated

Pros

• Allows pupils to work together

Cons

• None

Common Core

RF.K.2.c