Onset and Rime - Understanding Phonological Awareness is a PDF that teaches about rim and rime.
Two parts of a word are onset and rime.The beginning is the initial sound, blend, or digraph in a single word.The word oar has no onsets.
The rime is the first phoneme followed by all the others.Words that share the same rime are considered rhyming words.
Understanding onset and rime, as well as rhyming, builds students' awareness of common word parts.A foundation for automaticity in decoding is laid by exposing students to word families.Learning to blend and segment by rime lays the foundation for the more advanced tasks of segmenting and phoneme, which eventually leads to decoding.
The second skill on the continuum is set and rime.To master rime and onset, students need to be taught each of the tasks in a sequence.
It is important to assess students to make sure they have mastered the task.There is an assessment for mastery.Before moving on to the next task, teachers should assess each task and practice a sufficient amount of time.