Join the Onset & Rime Challenge and discover how simple daily exercises can boost confidence in reading for your pupils.

child engages in onset and rime exercise to boost phonological processing.

If you’re leading reading development and noticing that some pupils still struggle to hear the sounds within words, even when phonics teaching is strong, you’re not alone. The missing link might be timing.

Boost confidence and skills in 5 minutes a day.

Onset and Rime lightens the cognitive load.
Brings rhythm and decoding together.
Creates patterns from phonemes.
Builds confidence quickly.
Evidence-based.

Ready to See the Difference?

For Reading Leads and SENDCOs.

Over four weeks, you’ll apply short, evidence-based Onset & Rime exercises that bring rhythm and decoding together, lighten the cognitive load, and help pupils build patterns from phonemes with ease.

Ask the child to write and say the rime eg 'air'
Ask the question, 'What do we get if we start with 'ch'?
The child replies, 'chair' and writes the word 'chair'.
Repeat for every onset in the list, building rhythm and anticipation - allow 5 minutes /day.

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