Poems that rhyme

Ages 6 to 8 Read together, then try alone · about 20 minutes

Read together

Words rhyme when their ends sound the same. Moon and spoon rhyme.

A poem can have short lines that rhyme at the end.

Do it

1. Pick a word, such as cat. List words that rhyme: hat, mat, sat.
2. Write two lines about your day that end in rhyming words.
3. Add two more lines and read the poem aloud.
4. Perform it for your family. Add a clap for each beat.

Talk about it

• Which words rhyme?
• How does your poem sound?

For the grown-up

Rhyme builds sound awareness and a love of language. Psalms are poetry too, though Hebrew poetry rhymes ideas more than sounds. Let your child break the rules.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

• National Reading Panel, Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000)
• Alter, R., The Art of Biblical Poetry (Basic Books, 1985)

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.