Rhymes in a Poem

Say every picture name aloud before your child answers. Read the poem together twice and let your child clap on the rhyming words. Check with the answer key.

Read a short poem, find its rhyming words and decide if picture pairs rhyme. Poems often use rhyming words. Rhyming words end with the same sound, like sun and fun. The directions on the page read: Read the poem. Write the rhyming word from the poem in Part A. Then, circle Yes or No in Part B. The answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade rhyming words, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Two words rhyme when they end with the same sound, like pig and wig or cake and snake. The start of the word can be different.

Yes. Rhyming helps children see word families, so knowing cat helps them read and spell hat and flat. It also helps with reading poems aloud.

Often, but not always. Bear and chair rhyme but are spelled differently, which is why some pages ask children to listen as well as look.

Yes. Each of the six rhyming pages has an answer key.