Blending Onset-Rime with Stephanie Fincher

Stephanie Fincher: Are you ready to get started? Are you ready to become experts?

Students: Yeah.

Stephanie Fincher: Today we are going to work on blending two parts of a word into the whole word. So we're going to work on that. We're going to use these little manipulatives here to help us identify the onset and rime. [Teacher gives each students two cards to use to identify onset and rime.] So, look at Mrs. Fincher's. [She models with her own two cards.] This little square is going to represent the onset, the first sound in a word, and the small rectangle is going to represent the rime. That's the ending part of the word. So, listen to me as I do it. I'm going to model for you first and then you're going to try some. Okay. So eyes on me. Look at my board now. Okay, my two sounds. The two parts of my word are /b/, /at/. And when I blend them together I say "bat." Okay. So now you're going to try with your cards. Go ahead and bring them in front of you.

/sh/, /ip/ ... your turn.

Students: /sh/, /ip/ ... "ship."

Stephanie Fincher: Good job. Pull 'em back apart. My sounds are /f/, /ish/.

Students: /f/, /ish/ ... "fish."

Stephanie Fincher: Good job. Pull them back apart. My sounds are /sh/, /ark/.

Students: /sh/, /ark/ ... "shark."

Stephanie Fincher: Good job. Now you try some. My sounds are /s/, /and/

Students: /s/, /and/ ... "sand."

Stephanie Fincher: Nice job. My two sounds are /s/, /eal/

Students: /s/, /eal/ ... "seal."

Stephanie Fincher: Nice job.

Narrator: For more information, please visit ReadingUniverse.org. Special thanks to La Verne Heights Elementary School, Bonita Unified School District, and the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Reading Universe is made possible by generous support from Jim and Donna Barksdale, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and two anonymous donors. Reading Universe is a service of WETA, Washington, DC, the Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book.

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