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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Rhyme Time - Match-Up Activity
A set of 32 match-up cards for students to practice rhyming.
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Rhyming Poems Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of a rhyming poem.
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Rhyme or BUST! Card Game
Engage your students in this rhyme recognition activity that awards points for correctly identifying rhyming pairs.
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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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Rhyming Practice - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Practice identifying rhyming words with this cut and paste worksheet.
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Rhyming Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards to practice rhyming.
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Rhyme and Shuffle - Rhyming PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice producing rhyming words.
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A Rhyme a Dozen - Matching Game
A concentration style card game that can be used to consolidate students' knowledge of rhyming words.
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Bowling Game - Rhyming Words
Practice matching rhyming words with this set of 24 picture bowling ball cards and pins.
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Rhyming Word Dominoes
Practice recognizing rhyming words using pictures and words with this set of 40 dominoes.
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Rhyming Words Flashcards
Practice producing rhyming words with this set of 36 picture flashcards.
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Move and Rhyme - Board Game
Practice producing rhyming words using our rhyme-by-picture board game.
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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 Dominoes
Dominoes using rhyming words.
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Rhyming Words Snap Cards
A set of 32 snap cards to reinforce word families and rhyming with your students.
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Nutty Nursery Rhymes - Rhyming Activity
A set of eight nursery rhyme cards that have been modified for a speaking activity.
- Rhyming Words Games
- Rhyming Words Sorting Activities
- Rhyming Words Matchup Games
- Rhyming Words Worksheets
- Rhyming Words Task Cards
- Rhyming Words Interactive Activities
- Rhyming Words Card Games
- Rhyming Words Board Games
- Rhyming Words Dominoes
- Rhyming Words Posters
- Rhyming Words Flashcards
- Rhyming Words Dice Games
- Rhyming Words Active Games
- Rhyming Words Cut and Paste Worksheets
- Rhyming Words for Pre-K
- Rhyming Words for Kindergarten
- Rhyming Words for 1st Grade
- Rhyming Words for 2nd Grade
- Rhyming Words for 3rd Grade
- Rhyming Words for 4th Grade