WHAT IS RHYME?
Hi Kids,It’s time to rhyme!Do you want to rhyme words?Do you want to write rhyming poems?Do you want to write rhyming stories? If you answered, “Yes,” to these questions, then I would like to help you. Before you start, you need to think about what “rhyming” is. It is also helpful to learn how to make lists of rhyming words.
WHAT IS RHYMING?
That’s easy! RHYMING WORDS SOUND THE SAME AT THE END.
Here are some examples: say—day—may—hay—bay—way
The sound at the end of each word is ‘ay.’
This sound is like a long ‘a’ vowel sound.
Only the first consonant letters are different in each word. There are even more words that rhyme with say.
Here are some names that rhyme with "say."
Jay, Kay, Fay, Ray
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Look at these rhyming words--
ill --will—bill—hill—fill—mill-pill
The sound at the end of each word is ‘ill.’ The word ‘ill,’ itself, is a real word. Only the first consonant letters are different in each word. The word ‘ill’ begins with a vowel sound. When you make rhyming words for the word ‘ill’ , ADD a consonant at the beginning of the word in front of the vowel ‘i’ in ill. There are even more words that rhyme with ill.
Here are some names that rhyme with ill--
Jill ----Bill---Will
Making a list of rhyming words is fun.
Making lists of rhyming words will help you write a rhyming poem or story.
HERE IS HOW YOU MAKE THE LIST!
1. Write down a word:
I will write the name of a little boy: Mack
2. ‘Mack’ will be at the top of the list.When making this list, it is a good idea to make the first letter a different color than the other letters. Remember, when you are writing the words in a poem or story you do NOT have to make the first letter a different color. We put a capital ‘M’ at the beginning of Mack because it is the name of a boy. If the words, you write on your list are not names of something or someone, use a small (lower case) letter.
3. Think of the consonants in the English alphabet. b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
4. Change the first letter in the name Mack to each of these letters.
Write each word on the list under Mack. Write all the words you make on this list. Put in words that are not real words, too. The first letter of each word is different. The next few letters—‘ack’—are the same in each word. Read each word in the list. Decide which words are real words. Decide which words are NOT real words. Put a line under the word in the list, if it is a real word.
Put an ‘X,’ after the word if it is not a real word.
OKAY, HERE WE GO!
Mack
back
cack X
dack X
fack X
gack X
hack
Jack or jack Jack is a name of a boy. A jack is a tool used on a car.
kack X
lack
nack X
pack
quack remember that there is the vowel ‘u’ after q in every English word
rack
sack
tack
vack X
wack This is a silly or ‘wacky’ person. It is not used very much
xack X
yack X
Zack
There might be a real word in the list, marked with an ‘X’ that is a rhyming word but which is spelled differently. An example is the word in the list -yack. But this word is not spelled YACK. If you spell it without the ‘c’ in the middle , it would be the real rhyming word.
yak
--- If you go to the zoo, you just might see the animal called a ‘yak’.
Another word
in this list is a real word when spelled differently. Can you guess
which one it is?
If you said, ‘nack,’ you are correct.
It is spelledknack.
If someone has a knack for doing something, that means he or she has a talent
for doing it. The word ‘knack’ will be added to the
list later.
REMEMBER: A word does NOT need to be spelled the same to be a rhyming word. The word needs to SOUND the same at the end to be a rhyming word.
4. Now rewrite your list with only real words in it.
Mack
back
hack
Jack or jack
lack
pack
quack
rack
sack
tack
yak
Zack
You might choose to take the word “wack” out of the list because it is not used very much.
5. You can make your list longer by using consonant blends and phonemes.
Blends and phonemes are 2 or 3 consonant letters working together as 1 sound.
Here is an example: bl as in blend.
Think of as many blends and phonemes as you can: bl, br, cl, cr,dr, fl,fr,gl, gr, pl, pr,sl, st, sh, sm, sn, sw, str tr,th, twwh, wr
We already talked about the word knack. The kn, in knack has 2 consonants used together. The ‘k’ is silent in kn. That means we only hear the ‘n’ sound.In most other blends and phonemes, you can hear both sounds.
Now
try these new sounds with ‘ack.’Put
only the real words in the list.
Here they are:
black,
crack,
flack,
knack, This is pronounced ‘nack’
plaque, This is a small , thin metal or wooden tablet that can be hung on a wall. It often has some writing on it.
shack,
slack,
smack
snack
stack
track
whack
6. Now you are ready to make 1 big list out of the 2 smaller lists:
Mack
1. back
2. black
3. crack
4. lack
5. hack
6. Jack or jack
7. knack
8. lack
9. pack
10. quack
11. rack
12. sack
13. shack
14. smack
15. snack
16. stack
17. tack
18. track
19. whack
20. yak
21. Zack
You started with the name Mack. Now you have 21 more words, all rhyming with Mack.
If you were
writing a poem or rhyming story about a little boy named Mack, you would
have 21 other words to use.
7.
Each word in this last list has a single syllable.
A syllable has letters put together making a single sound.
A single syllable word has one sound in the whole word.
The words,
See tree me key
send fend mend bend
are all single syllable words.
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A two syllable word has two sounds in the whole word.
The words,
able table stable cable awake mistake
are two syllable words.
A three syllable word has three sounds in the whole word.
elephant dinosaur forgiven educate
There are even bigger and harder words with four or five syllables.
This word has five syllables.
opportunity
It is a hard word to read.
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There could be two or three syllable words that rhyme with Mack. attack is an example of a two syllable word that rhymes with Mack. kayak-is another two syllable word that rhymes with Mack.
A kayak is a small boat
It has a cover that fits around the waist of a person who is sitting in this boat.
almanac- is a three syllable word that rhymes with Mack. An almanac is a book of useful facts. Some of these facts are about countries of the world, special events and other things. An almanac is usually written every year.
Many two or three syllable words that rhyme with Mack are compound words. Compound words are two words put together to make a longer word. Each word in the larger compound word can be single syllable. playground—(playground) is a compound word with two words-
play and ground
Each word in this compound word is a single syllable word.
Sometimes, one of the words that makes up the compound word has more than one syllable.
piggyback (piggyback) -in this compound word, piggy has two syllables. The word back has a single syllable.
Here are some two and three syllable compound words that rhyme with Mack.
backpack - backpack backtrack - backtrack drawback - drawback
haystack - haystack
crackerjack- crackerjack paperback- paperback
piggyback- piggyback
You may be able to think of many other two syllable compound words that rhyme with 'Mack'.
They are rhyming words with 'Mack' because the endings of each word sounds the same as 'Mack'.
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BOOKS WITH LISTS OF RHYMING WORDS
It is fun to have lists of rhyming words. You can make these lists by yourself. There are many books with these lists, as well.Some of these rhyming books are called "Rhyming Dictionaries" You could find them in the library and in book stores. These books will list a sound, such as ‘it’, or ‘all’, or ‘op’. These books will list many other sounds too. These sounds are listed in the book in alphabetical order. Under or next to each sound will be an alphabetical list of words that end with that sound. These are the rhyming words using that sound.
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES FOR THE SOUNDS LISTED ABOVE.
it - bit, fit, it, kit, lit, sit, spit, split all all ball call fall tall wall
op- cop, hop, pop, mop, stop, top
These books are very helpful when writing poems or rhyming stories.