Rhyming Words Worksheet

Students match six rhyming picture pairs, pick the rhyme in four picture rows, finish four silly rhymes and write rhymes for pig and bell.

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Grades
K–1
Pages
3
Type
Worksheet
Includes
Answer key
Answer key included

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Hearing, matching and making rhymes

Rhymes are words that end with the same sound, and this worksheet moves children from hearing rhymes to making their own. The matching task prints the word under every picture, so children who are still learning to read can say each one aloud. The word families in the first two tasks never repeat, so a child can't rely on one ending. The last two questions are open: any word that rhymes with pig or bell counts, and the answer key lists the common ones.

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Learning objectives

  • Match pictures whose names rhyme.
  • Choose the word that rhymes with a given word from three choices.
  • Complete a two-line rhyme with a word that ends the same way.
  • Produce two words that rhyme with pig and with bell.
From the creator

Teaching tips

1

Play the thumbs-up warm-up from the key before handing out the sheet. Pairs like sock and sack, or bee and bed, start the same but don't rhyme, which catches children who listen to the beginning instead of the end.

2

In Make a Rhyme, accept made-up rhymes said aloud (like zig for pig) as proof a child hears the pattern, but ask for real words on paper; the key lists big, dig, wig, fig, jig and twig.

Differentiation

Meet every learner.

Ways to adjust the rhyming pages for different learners.

Support

Say it, then match

  • Do Rhyme Match orally first: you say hen, they find the picture that sounds like it.
  • Read the four silly rhymes aloud and let them point to the word bank picture.
  • For Make a Rhyme, accept one rhyme per word, said or written.
On level

Teach as written

  • Both student pages, after the eight-pair warm-up from the key.
  • Students read each finished silly rhyme aloud to check that it sounds right.
Extension

Write silly rhymes

  • Write a fifth two-line silly rhyme using one of the Rhyme Match pairs.
  • Find a third and fourth rhyme for pig and bell.

Curriculum alignment.

Each one is checked against the official document. Where the resource covers only part of a standard, the note says so.

Ontario Language (2023) · Grade 1
C3.1Rhyme as a literary device

Students match rhyming picture pairs, pick the word that rhymes, finish short rhymes from a word bank and write two rhymes of their own. Students do not talk about how rhyme helps a text's meaning, and alliteration and sound words are not covered.

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