Rhyming Words. 1st Grade ELA Worksheets and Answer Key. (2024)

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What is an example of a rhyming word for grade 1? ›

Some examples of rhyming words are: goat, boat, moat, float, coat. When you are figuring out if two words rhyme, use your ears to listen as you say the words. If they sound the same or similar, they rhyme. For example: car and bar rhyme; house and mouse rhyme.

Below we have shared the list of words that rhyme: Cat – Mat – Rat – Hat – Bat – Fat – Pat – Sat – Chat – That. Dog – Log – Frog – Bog – Jog – Smog – Clog – Hog – Catalog – Blog. Class – Mass – Gas – Pass – Glass – Grass – Brass – Surpass.

Rhyming and clapping syllables is often taught first—children learn to listen for, recognize, and then generate rhyming words. Then they identify beginning sounds, final sounds, and medial sounds. The ability to understand and manipulate sounds in words is essential to becoming a reader.

Focus on the pairs of words that rhyme and review them with the class. Call on students to read the rhyming words. When all of the pairs have been read, go through all the words as a class, with everyone saying each word together. Tell students that they will now have a chance to make and play their own rhyming game!

Rhyming prompts children to repeat sounds and patterns, reinforcing their grasp of word sounds. Phonemic Awareness: Rhyming establishes the foundation for advanced phonemic awareness skills, crucial for literacy development, including reading and spelling.

Your first grader should be able to recognize rhyming. words and create their own rhyming word pairs or sets (big, dig, fig). See if your child can also identify the first, middle and last sounds they hear in a word, and show you how many sounds are in simple one-syllable.

How do you teach words to first graders? ›

Read to Build Vocabulary: While reading with the child, talk about the text, helping the child understand important vocabulary words in the story. Watch Read to Build Vocabulary. Conversation in the Kitchen: Through conversation, use every day activities to build the child's language and vocabulary.

Phonemic awareness can and should be directly taught to children. Parents can be the best teachers by singing with their kids, rhyming words and asking them the sounds they hear in different words. If you can sing a song or rhyme a word you can build your child's phonemic awareness.