In the word snap, "sn" is the onset and "ap" is the rime (the part starting with the vowel).
A student will identify new words by its shape, beginning and ending letters, any context clues from the rest of the sentence or any accompanying pictures.
[8] A major problem with analytic phonic methods is the erroneous assumption that all students will already have the fairly sophisticated phonemic awareness skills needed to enable the comparison of sounds within the various words.
Both approaches require the learner to have some phonological awareness (the ability to hear and discriminate sounds in spoken words).
In contrast, analytic phonics, involves the analysis of whole words to detect phonetic or orthographic (spelling) patterns, then splitting them into smaller parts to help with decoding.