Rhyming Words: Find the Rhyme

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will get better at finding rhyming words by picking the rhyme from a group of words.

🌟 Let's Start

Tunde is playing a game with his friends at school. He says a word, and his friends must find the word that rhymes. Tunde says "ring" — and his friend Kemi shouts "sing!" because ring and sing sound the same at the end. Let us play this game too!

📚 New Concept

To find a rhyme, listen to the ending sound of the first word. Then check which other word has the same ending sound.

Example: Which word rhymes with hop: cat or mop?

• Hop ends with -op.
• Cat ends with -at. That is different.
• Mop ends with -op. That is the same!
• So mop rhymes with hop.

Let us try more:

• Which rhymes with box: pen or fox? Answer: fox (-ox)
• Which rhymes with rice: nice or bag? Answer: nice (-ice)
• Which rhymes with king: ring or cup? Answer: ring (-ing)

Sometimes three words are given and only two of them rhyme. The one that does not rhyme is the odd one out.

Example: car, star, pen — car and star rhyme. Pen is the odd one out.

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Which word rhymes with tail: pail or dog?
2. Which word rhymes with night: tree or light?
3. Find the odd one out: hen, pen, car. Which word does NOT rhyme?

Click to see answers

1. Pail rhymes with tail. They both end with -ail.
2. Light rhymes with night. They both end with -ight.
3. Car does NOT rhyme. Hen and pen both end with -en, but car ends with -ar.

💡 Remember

To find a rhyme, listen to how the word ends. The rhyming word will have the same ending sound pattern.