Rhyming Words: Do These Sound the Same?

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn what rhyming words are — words that have the same ending sound pattern.

🌟 Let's Start

Funke loves to sing songs. One of her favourite songs goes: "Rain, rain, go away, come again another day." Do you hear how away and day sound alike at the end? Those are rhyming words! Rhyming words are fun — they make songs and poems sound beautiful.

📚 New Concept

Rhyming words are words that sound the same at the end.

• cat — hat — bat — mat all rhyme! They all end with the -at sound.
• sun — fun — run — bun all rhyme! They all end with the -un sound.
• ball — tall — wall — fall all rhyme! They all end with the -all sound.

How to check if words rhyme: Say the two words. Do they sound the same at the end? If YES, they rhyme!

• Do dog and log rhyme? Say them: dog... log... YES! They both end with -og.
• Do fish and tree rhyme? Say them: fish... tree... NO! They sound different at the end.
• Do man and pan rhyme? Say them: man... pan... YES! They both end with -an.

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Do bed and red rhyme?
2. Do cup and dog rhyme?
3. Which word rhymes with cake: lake or tree?

Click to see answers

1. YES — bed and red both end with the -ed sound. They rhyme!
2. NO — cup ends with -up and dog ends with -og. They do not rhyme.
3. Lake rhymes with cake. They both end with the -ake sound.

💡 Remember

Rhyming words sound the same at the end. Cat and hat rhyme. Sun and fun rhyme. Listen for the ending sounds!