Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Six, Lesson Four: Rhyming

  1. brush
  2. fresh
  3. trash
  4. shave
  5. sharp
  6. mashed
  7. potato
  8. farm
  9. pass
  10. summit
  1. crest
  2. altitude
  3. beaver
  4. marmot
  5. buffalo
  6. antelope
  7. grizzly
  8. deer
  9. trapper
  10. protozoa
Rhyming

You hear a lot of rhyming in poems and songs. For instance, consider these lines from a silly song: 


  My stomach growled real late last night
  It sounded like two bears in a fight
  So I went downstairs to grab me a bite
  I opened the 'fridge and on came the light
When you say these lines to yourself you notice that the words at the ends of each line sound similar. That is, night, fight, bite, and light all rhyme. These words all end with the sound of the letter t which follows the long i sound. Other words which end with the long i sound followed by the t sound include: kite, write, bright, might, site, and sight. You notice that it is the sound and not the spelling which is important since the long i followed by a t sound can be formed in two ways: "ight" and "ite".

Here are some more lines that rhyme: 


  In my hand I held a worm
  The little guy sure liked to squirm
In these two lines the words worm and squirm rhyme. They both end with the er sound followed by the m sound. Other words that rhyme with worm and squirm are firm, term, perm, and birm. You can see that the er sound followed by the m sound can be spelled with -irm, -erm, or -orm (and possibly even -urm).

Here are some more sets of rhyming words: 


  date: fate, mate, late, crate, bait, freight, trait

  match: latch, catch, batch, hatch (but not watch)

  time: slime, crime, dime, thyme, lime, mime

  no: know, hoe, row, so, bow, show, dough
Notice that different letter patterns can make the same sound.

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