The Reading Universe Professional Learning Community (PLC) series provides guidance to reading coaches, principals, and team leaders on how to lead teacher professional development training sessions about reading instruction.
We provide these free materials for a PLC session about onset-rime.
- A downloadable facilitator's guide
- A downloadable participant's guide
- Google slides for your session
- A classroom video
This PLC session leads participants in the analysis and discussion of Blending Sounds in Syllables with Autumn, a Reading Rockets video featuring a Calvert County, Maryland, kindergarten student who needs more time and support on onset-rime. Autumn works one on one with reading expert Linda Farrell.
By the end of the PLC session, teachers will be able to:
- Define onset-rime and explain its relevance to reading instruction
- Determine if a student has the prerequisite skills necessary to successfully blend onset-rime.
- Model how to blend onset-rime into words using manipulatives
- Provide positive corrective feedback and adjust teaching in response to student error
- Provide practice in blending onset-rime into words
- Recognize when students have acquired enough letter-sound knowledge to begin teaching orthographic mapping with the use of letters
Facilitator's Guide: All of the resources and materials you will need to plan and implement a session, are available for free to all teachers. You may download, share, or stream the media in any setting. This guide includes everything you need to feel confident and ready to facilitate productive discussions with meaningful feedback including, skill background information, video viewing guides, media links, answer keys, and suggestions for meeting agendas.
