Advanced Onset and Rime Word Building Cards

Support developing readers as they move beyond basic CVC words with these Advanced Onset & Rime Word Building Cards. This hands-on phonics resource helps students explicitly practice blending onsets and rimes using a structured, repeatable routine that builds decoding confidence and word reading automaticity.

Designed to align with Science of Reading principles and structured literacy instruction, this resource is ideal for small groups, intervention, literacy centers, and homeschool phonics practice.

What This Resource Is
This printable set includes onset and rime blending cards paired with a visual blending mat and a recording sheet. Students manipulate onset and rime cards, segment each part, and blend them together to read and build real and nonsense words.

Skills Covered
This resource supports students in:
• Blending onset and rime to decode unfamiliar words
• Strengthening phonemic awareness and oral blending
• Decoding more advanced phonics patterns through hands-on practice

What’s Included
• Onset and rime blending mat with visual supports
• “Words I Made” recording sheet for accountability and extension
• Comprehensive set of onset cards, including blends and digraphs
• A wide variety of rime cards organized by advanced phonics patterns

How to Use This Resource
1. Print the cards and blending mat on cardstock.
2. Cut and laminate for long-term use.
3. Place one rime card on the blending mat and add an onset card.
4. Students touch each segment, say the parts, then blend to read the word.
5. Students record the words they build on the recording sheet.
6. Mix and match cards to increase difficulty or focus on a specific pattern.

Why Teachers and Homeschool Parents Love It
• Clear, structured routine that supports developing readers
• Covers advanced phonics patterns in one reusable resource
• Easy to differentiate for small groups and intervention
• Encourages engagement through hands-on learning
• Works well with structured literacy and OG-inspired instruction

If you purchased Raising Little Readers® Volume 2 with the Bonus Printables Bundle add-on, you already own this resource.