Grow Your Students Onset and Rime Knowledge

This onset and rime flower template kit has been created by an experienced early childhood educator to help students engage with onset and rime words. Each flower contains a rime in the middle and an image and onset to add to each petal to make a number of different words. Onset and Rime word lists included in this resource are:

• /at/ – cat, bat, sat, hat, rat
• /ap/ – cap, tap, map, gap, nap
• /an/ – can, ban, fan, ran, pan
• /ed/ – bed, red, wed, ted, fed
• /et/ – wet, vet, net, pet, jet
• /en/ – ten, hen, den, pen, men
• /ig/ – wig, dig, big, fig, pig
• /in/ – win, tin, bin, fin, pin
• /it/ – kit, sit, bit, fit, pit
• /og/ – dog, hog, log, cog, jog
• /op/ – mop, hop, top, cop, pop
• /ot/ – lot, hot, dot, cot, pot
• /ug/ – mug, but, tug, rug, hug

Plus more!!

Onset and Rime vs Word Families

Many people ask, isn’t onset and rime just learning word families. And while they are connected, it’s still vital that teachers break down and teach the onset and rime components. Each of these components can be mixed and matched to created word families.

Therefore onset and rime focuses on the individual phonemes of words, helping students with decoding and phonemic awareness, where as word families focus on grouping similar words based on patterns to enhance vocabulary development.

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This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

More Onset and Rime Resources

Looking for more resources to add to your phonemic awareness lessons? We have you covered…

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Onset and Rime Mini Books

Practice onset and rime phonemic awareness with this set of mini books that each focus on the short vowel sounds (a,e,i,o,u).

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Onset and Rime Flipbooks

Flip through different short vowel onset and rime words with this set of printable flipbooks.

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Onset and Rime Phonics Search Pack

Practice searching for and decoding onset and rime words with this set of search and find worksheets.