Early Literacy Games | Reading Activities | Phonological Awareness

40 Onset-Rime Brain Break Cards to be used in a variety of ways.

Brain Break- Small mental breaks that are designed to relieve working memory and re-focus attention.
Working memory- Short term ability to hold on to information while the mind is busy with another task.
Onset-Rime- onset is the initial phonological unit of any word | rime is the string of letters that follow the onset.ex. in the word dog, the sound /d/ is the onset and /og/ is the rime - blending onset and rime you get dog.

Onset-rime practice builds awareness of word parts.
Activity suggestions:

• Use cards as a transition/ short fill -in activity Brain-breaks throughout the day
• (Teacher/parent: (/j/ /og/ in place for 20 seconds Students say jog and then jog for 20 seconds)
• Use for short physical/exercise breaks (indoors/outdoors)
• Cover the onset-rime and show picture and let students say the 1) onset-rime 2) blend 3) do the action
• Use the emotion cards to talk about and act out
• Use for ESL
• Be creative and have fun