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Onsets & Rimes

PROCEDURAL
English›Phonics & Word Reading|Ages 4—7|ID: mt_PvU3eoikev

Blend and segment onsets and rimes in single-syllable words; isolate and pronounce individual phonemes (initial, medial, final) in CVC words; add or substitute phonemes to make new words

Mastery Evidence

  • Blend onset and rime to say a word (e.g. /c/ + /at/ → 'cat')
  • Identify the first, middle, or last sound in a CVC word
  • Change one sound to make a new word (e.g. change /c/ in 'cat' to /b/ → 'bat')

Assessment Prompt

“If you slowly say the sounds '/d/ /o/ /g/', can [child] blend them together and say 'dog'? And if you say 'cat', can they tell you the three separate sounds: /k/ /a/ /t/?”

Curriculum Standards1 alignment

Eng_App1_Y1_04The national curriculum in England
Revision: Segmenting spoken words

Revision of work covered in Reception: the process of segmenting spoken words into sounds before choosing graphemes to represent the sounds.

English · Key Stage 1

Prerequisites2

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  • Rhyming words soft

    Rhyme awareness supports finer phoneme skills

  • Syllables soft

    Syllable awareness builds toward phoneme level

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