Keys for the Teacher
Rhyming is a “correspondence” between end-sounds in words. Being able to detect and create rhymes is an early pre-reading skill. While the strict definition of what comprises a true set of rhyming words is complicated, we teach children that rhyming words sound alike. Rhyming words end with the same sounds. Hearing rhymes repeatedly in a variety of texts helps to train a student’s ear to identify and generate rhyming words. Manipulation of sounds and letter patterns plays an important role in decoding words and fluent reading.

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Keys for the Children
Good readers can hear and tell which words rhyme in a story. Good readers can also make up their own rhyming words.