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Quick Look: Segmenting Onset and Rime with Stephanie Fincher

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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Stephanie Fincher: My word is bell. Say bell.

Students:

Bell.

Stephanie Fincher: Onset ...

Students: /b/

Stephanie Fincher: Rime ...

Students: /l/

Stephanie Fincher: Good job. You pull 'em apart.

[Teacher ands students use cards to show the two different sounds but pulling them apart.}

Stephanie Fincher: Go ahead and put 'em back together.

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Support Materials

Blending Onset and Rime Lesson Plan

This lesson plan uses the Touch and Say teaching strategy to teach students how to blend the onset and rime in a word.

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Student Practice Activity: Onset Rime Detective

Use this activity to provide students with practice with segmenting and blending the onset and rime in words.

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