Rhyming Words Teaching Resources
Save lesson-planning time and make rhyme time a fun time in elementary school with a collection of rhyming word activities for kindergarten and first grade, including rhyming games for kids, rhyming word worksheets, and interactive Google Slides activities.
Created by teachers, each activity in this rhyme collection is curriculum-aligned and has been rigorously reviewed to ensure it’s ready for your classroom. Resources have been created in editable formats to allow for easy differentiation for your students.
New to this part of the ELA curriculum? Our ELA teachers have a quick guide to get you ready to teach rhyming. (Feel free to skip ahead to the resources if you're all set!)
Why Teach Rhyming Words?
Rhyme is an important concept in preschool and kindergarten because the ability to recognize, blend, and manipulate the sounds in words is critical to developing reading and writing skills.
Rhyming also helps children improve their oral language skills, lays the groundwork for spelling and written language, and develops predicting skills —a reading comprehension strategy.
Teaching Rhyming Words for Kindergarten
Teaching rhyming words doesn't have to be difficult. Tons and tons of rhyming word worksheets, lessons, and activities are ready to go in our collection! Need an idea for a rhyming word activity? Keep reading!
- Print, display, and discuss rhyming word anchor charts. You can co-create some word family posters with your students.
- Play rhyming word games like Four-in-a-Row, Bingo, and Rhyming Word Memory.
- Print a set of rhyming word flashcards and tape one or two to the wall outside your classroom door. As students enter the room, have them tell you a rhyming word to enter.
- Rhyming word sorts are perfect for giving young readers an opportunity to put their hands and minds on rhyming words and word families.
- Provide lots and lots of practice; perhaps with a set of Rhyming worksheets for kindergarten and first grade.
- Send home a rhyming words list for parents to use at home for additional practice.
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Rhyming Card Game
A concentration style rhyming card game that can be used to consolidate students' knowledge of rhyming words.
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Rhyming Game - Stand Up, Sit Down Digital Activity
Explore rhyming words with this fun and engaging rhyming words game.
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A Visit from Santa – Christmas Poem Poster
Use this “A Visit from Santa” Christmas poem for kids as a basis for some festive fun in your classroom!
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Rhyming Puzzle Match Up
Help early learners with their phonological awareness with this cute set of printable rhyming puzzles.
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Rhyme Time Stories PowerPoint
Use this Rhyme Time Stories PowerPoint to explore auditory recognition of rhyming words with your young readers.
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Rhyming Word Cards
Reinforce students' knowledge of rhyming words with this set of 30 picture cards.
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Let's Rhyme! Worksheet
Match rhyming words and create a list of rhyming words.
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It's Time to Rhyme! - Practice Worksheet
Practice identifying and producing rhyming sets with this independent or partner worksheet.
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Roll and Read – Rhyming Words
A fun game for students to practice reading rhyming words.
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Four in a Row Game - Rhyming Words
Practice recognizing rhyming words with this set of 12 picture cards and game board.
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Rhyming Sort Cookies Activity Mats
Use this cookie tray rhyming sort to explore the auditory component of rhyming words to develop phonemic awareness in your students.
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Rhyming Odd One Out Activity Mats
Use this Rhyming Odd One Out activity to support students phonemic awareness.
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Counting Syllables Game
Practice counting syllables in this beehive-themed Counting Syllables Game.
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Rhyming Bingo Game
Play a Rhyming Bingo Game to help your beginning readers learn to identify rhyming words and word families.
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Learn to Read Short U - Daily Phonics for Kids
Use our week-long Interactive Short U Word Building Interactive to teach daily phonics lessons for kindergarten!
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Word Families Sorting Activity – Short O
Use these word families flashcards to help familiarize your students with words that contain the short o vowel sound.
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Short I Word Families Flashcards
Use these word families flashcards to help familiarize your students with words that contain the short i vowel sound.
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The Easter Bunny – Easter Poem Poster
Use this Easter poem about the Easter bunny as a basis for some Easter fun in your classroom!
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Jack Be Nimble – Nursery Rhyme Poster
Use this “Jack be Nimble” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Hickory Dickory Dock – Nursery Rhyme Poster
Use this “Hickory Dickory Dock” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students about rhyme, rhythm and counting.
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat – Nursery Rhyme Poster
Use this “Row Row Row Your Boat” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Hey Diddle Diddle – Nursery Rhyme Poster
Use this “Hey Diddle Diddle” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Little Miss Muffet – Nursery Rhyme Poster
Use this “Little Miss Muffet” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students the features of rhymes.
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I Think Mice Are Rather Nice – Nursery Rhyme Poster
Use this “I Think Mice Are Rather Nice” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Wee Willie Winkie – Nursery Rhyme Poster
Use this “Wee Willie Winkie” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Here Comes the Band – Counting Rhyme Poster
Use the counting rhyme “Here Comes the Band” poster to teach your students about numbers and rhyme simultaneously!
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Onset and Rime Slide Activity
Practice matching onset and rime to create words in this fun slider activity.
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Valentine's Love Bug Rhyming Game
Bring a bit of love into the classroom with an interactive Valentine’s Day rhyming word activity for Preschool and Kindergarten.
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Penguin Rime Interactive - Word Family Sort
Help these chilly word family penguins escape the frigid water by sorting them onto the correct ice floes.
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Word Family Sorting Cards
Reinforce word families and rhyming words with your students with this set of 36 sorting cards.
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Rhyming Jellybeans - Interactive Activity
Sweeten up your literacy centers with an interactive candy-themed rhyming word game for Preschool and Kindergarten.
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Easter Rhyming Word Game
Add movement, excitement, and collaboration to rhyming practice with this Easter rhyming word game.