Rhyming words
Recognise and produce rhyming words; join in with predictable phrases and rhymes in stories and poems; learn to appreciate and recite poems by heart
Teaching approaches
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1 approach
Rhyming words share the same ending sound chunk. Cat, bat, and mat rhyme because they all end with /at/. Dog does not rhyme with cat.
Spend about 10 minutes matching rhyme pairs from ready cards, then making one new rhyme.
Learning resources
Reviewed external links that reinforce this concept. They do not replace Gakuva’s teaching approach.
Words That Rhyme · cat
Listen/read and choose words that rhyme with a target (cat family). Supplemental rhyming recognition, not full phoneme isolation assessment.
Proof: Save a completed-round screenshot and a parent note of three rhyming pairs the learner said aloud.
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Before
No prerequisite
This concept
Check understanding
- Identify which words rhyme from a set (e.g. cat, bat, dog)
- Generate a word that rhymes with a given target
- Join in with repeated refrains and rhyming patterns during shared reading
“When you read a rhyming book to your child, do they join in and predict the rhyming words — and can they come up with their own rhyme for a simple word like 'cat'?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Phonics & Word Reading
- Age range
- Ages 4–6
Standards