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  • Onset-Rime Skill Explainer

Quick Look: Segmenting Onset and Rime

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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.

Reading Universe is made possible by generous support from Jim & Donna Barksdale; the Hastings/Quillin Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; the AFT; the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation; and three anonymous donors.