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
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Set out your lesson
“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.”
Bring to the table
- Ready word cards: cat, bat, mat, hat, dog, sun
- Marker only if a card needs rewriting
Full guide and materials
- Ready word cards: cat, bat, mat, hat, dog, sun
- Marker only if a card needs rewriting
- Step 1. Show cat, bat, mat, and dog. Read each card aloud.
- Step 2. Ask which words sound the same at the end. Have your child point to a rhyming pair.
- Step 3. Say the couplet: “A cat sat on a mat.” Ask what word rhymed with cat.
- Step 4. Give the target sun. Ask for a word that rhymes with sun, such as run or fun.
- Step 5. If needed, offer two choices: “Does sun rhyme with run or with dog?”
- Quick check. Success means your child points to at least one true rhyming pair from the cards and says one new word that rhymes with a simple target such as sun → run.
Worked example. From cat, dog, bat, the rhyming pair is cat and bat because both end with /at/. A new rhyme for cat is hat.
Optional challenge. Read “The cat sat on a _____.” and have your child fill the blank with a rhyme for cat, such as mat. Say the finished sentence together: “The cat sat on a mat.”
What to notice. Save a parent note naming the rhyming pair and the new rhyme your child produced.
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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.
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Learning resources
External links for extra practice. They do not replace Gakuva’s teaching approach.
Roy the Zebra · Practice link — not the full lesson
Words That Rhyme · cat
Listen/read and choose words that rhyme with a target (cat family). Supplemental rhyming recognition, not full phoneme isolation assessment.
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Review and open practice
Save a completed-round screenshot and a parent note of three rhyming pairs the learner said aloud.
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Open practice (new tab)Source, access and review notes
Listen/read and choose words that rhyme with a target (cat family). Supplemental rhyming recognition, not full phoneme isolation assessment.
Save a completed-round screenshot and a parent note of three rhyming pairs the learner said aloud.
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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