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# Onset & Rime - What has changed? How does it function within PLD from 2024?

|| PLD is committed to reading the release of new research, and analysing how the PLD range is impacted by new research.  From this annual process the following change has emerged. 
| Onset & Rime Blending is NOT Associated with Structured Synthetic Phonics, but a Linguistic Framework Instead.

###### As such, PLD has made some modifications to the Foundation teaching sequence and screening tests.

| Onset & Rime in the Early Years

PLD will still produce Learning to Blend Onset & Rime, but it will be largely associated with the Early Years Program, following a Linguistic framework and not a SSP framework.

You can download the updated Early Years Teaching Sequence Manual HERE.

![Onset & Rime in the Early Years](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/67ae980d1c7d2000/onset-rime-early-years-tsm_47zt5d.png)

|| Onset & Rime in Foundation

###### Onset & Rime Blending will no longer be incorporated in the Foundation teaching sequence or screening assessments.

![Onset & Rime Removed from Foundation Sequence & Screen](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/67ae980d1c7d2000/onset-rime-foundation-changes_11nr0o7.png)

However, at a Foundation level, it is still an option for Tier 2 and 3 students who are slow to progress with 3 phoneme blending.