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

For some words it's easy to find other words that rhyme with it. For other words there just aren't a lot of rhyming words. Here are some examples: 


  bat: cat, fat, hat, that, mat, knat, rat (and more)

  above: shove, love, dove (and maybe more)

  gush: mush, slush (and maybe more)

  hour: shower, tower, sour, flower, flour, power (and more)
The point here is that there is no guarantee that any word will rhyme with any other words. Some sound patterns are a lot more common than others. Words with common sound patterns at the end, tend to have more rhyming words than words with uncommon sound patterns at the end.

It is important to keep in mind that it is the sound pattern and not the letter pattern which causes words to rhyme. Remember that the same letter pattern is sometimes pronounced differently (as in watch and catch) and that the same sound pattern can sometimes be made with different letter patterns (as in tower and sour). 


  young: tongue, lung, slung, hung (and more)

  stain: remain, Jane, cane, Maine, main, lane, drain (and more)

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