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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Onset/rime Games

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing. This article...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Six Syllable Types

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Six written syllable-spelling conventions are used in English spelling. The conventions are useful to teach because they help students remember when to double letters in spelling and how to pronounce the vowels in new words. The...