Onset and Rime Cut and Paste Activities

In this set of worksheets, created by an early years teacher, students are encouraged to match the onsets with their rimes. For students to grasp this concept they’re developing a foundational skill in early literacy development. In particular, it helps children recognise and manipulate the sound sin words which is crucial in phonological awareness. The word families included in this set of worksheets includes:

• ‘at’ family
• ‘it’ family
• ‘in’ family
• ‘ug’ family
• ‘od’ family
• ‘ab’ family
• ‘un’ family
• ‘ot’ family
• ‘ob’ family
• ‘en’ family
• ‘ig’ family
• ‘et’ family

This set of 12 worksheets includes answer sheets as well for self checking.

Ways to Use Cut-and-Paste Worksheets in the Classroom

This set of worksheets is a great versatile resource to use in the classroom. You can differentiate this set of worksheets by only providing a set number of worksheets or even just one at a time to help students consolidate their knowledge of each word family. Alternatively you can get students to work their way through all 12 worksheets at their own pace.

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This resource was created by Lauren Borst, a Teach Starter Collaborator.

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