Onset-rime

Onset-rime - an entry skill to phonemic awareness that builds an understanding of rhyming. Onset is the initial consonant, consonant blend, or consonant digraph, in a syllable or word. Not all words have onsets (at, in, oar). The rime is the first vowel sound and any other letters that follow it in a syllable. For example, in the word jog, the onset is /j/ and the rime is /ŏg/.