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Making Rhymes: Can You Think of a Rhyme?

Practice creating your own rhyming words.

10 min

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn to make up your own rhyming words — this is a superpower for reading!

🌟 Let's Start

Adaeze loves making up silly rhymes. She says: "I have a cat, it sat on a mat, wearing a hat!" Cat, mat, hat — they all rhyme with -at. Now Adaeze wants you to try making your own rhymes. It is easier than you think!

📚 New Concept

To make a rhyme, keep the ending sound and change the beginning sound. Watch:

Start with -at:

  • Put /b/ in front: bat
  • Put /k/ in front: cat
  • Put /f/ in front: fat
  • Put /h/ in front: hat
  • Put /m/ in front: mat
  • Put /r/ in front: rat
  • Put /s/ in front: sat

You just made SEVEN rhyming words!

Start with -an: man, pan, ran, fan, van — five more rhyming words!

More rhyme families: -ig (big, dig, fig, pig, wig), -op (hop, mop, pop, top), -ug (bug, hug, mug, rug, tug).

🎮 Let's Practice

  1. Make two words that rhyme with hot (hint: change the beginning sound, keep -ot).
  2. Make two words that rhyme with ring (hint: keep -ing).
  3. Make two words that rhyme with bed (hint: keep -ed).
Click to see answers
  1. Words that rhyme with hot: pot, dot, got, not, lot (any two are correct).
  2. Words that rhyme with ring: sing, king, wing, thing, bring (any two are correct).
  3. Words that rhyme with bed: red, fed, led, said, wed (any two are correct).

💡 Remember

To make a rhyme, keep the ending sound the same and change the beginning sound. You can make many words this way!