Onset-Rime Segmenting, The Take-Away Game
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| Activity Type: Introduce |
| Activity Form: Standard |
| Grade: K, 1 |
| Group Size: Small Group |
| Length: 8 minutes |
| Materials: none |
| Goal: Given a spoken onset and rime, the student can remove the onset and state the remaining rime. |
| Items: Words with easy consonant onsets: seat-eat, sand-and, knit-it, nice-ice, farm-arm, hair-air, rash-ash, cold-old, bat-at, bye-eye, cart-art, pat-at, gold-old, pitch-itch. |
What to do
- Sometimes when we take one sound away from a word, we end up with a new word. Listen to this word-- lll-ate. Make sure to elongate and exaggerate the initial phoneme. Can you repeat the word that I just said? Students repeat, elongating the initial phoneme.
- Great! Now listen to this word-- ate. Can you repeat the word I just said? Students repeat the word. Do you know which sound I took away? Think about it. Students should say that the lll sound has been taken away.
- Great! I took away the lll sound in lll-ate. My new word is ate. Repeat after me lll-ate, ate. Now let’s try another one.
- It is not uncommon for students to initially struggle with this activity. Although they may be able to easily identify the words, they may have difficulty articulating which sound was taken away. Continue to model examples.
- Words with easy consonant onsets: seat-eat, sand-and, knit-it, nice-ice, farm-arm, hair-air, rash-ash, cold-old, bat-at, bye-eye, cart-art, pat-at, gold-old, pitch-itch.
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About this activity
Once I realized that my students were not noticing how different words are made up of similar sounds, I experimented with many onset-rime activites and found this to be the most effective.