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All About Teaching Reading & Writing
Skill Explainer

2. When to Teach Rhyming

Rhyming Skill Explainer

Phonological awareness continuum chart

Grade Level

Prerequisite Skills for Rhyming

Rhyming and Onset-Rime

We address the skill of rhyming separately from onset-rime because many reading programs teach rhyming as a discrete skill. However, rhyming is simply where the onset changes but the rime stays the same. In other words, rhyming is practice for understanding onset-rime.

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