How it works
These rhyming worksheets print eight words down the left and their rhymes, mixed up, down the right. Children join each word to the one it rhymes with: cat to mat, sun to run.
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Six sets, easy to hard
Set picks the list. Sets 1 to 3 rhyme and look alike: cat and mat, bell and shell, cake and snake. In Sets 4 to 6 the rhyme hides behind two spellings: bear and hair, blue and two, eight and gate. All of them mixes pairs from every set.
Rhyming activity worksheets to cut and paste
Answer by changes the task. Pencil only leaves two columns to join with lines. Cut and paste prints an empty box beside each word and the rhymes as tiles to cut out and glue in.
- After matching, have children say each pair aloud. In Sets 4 to 6, ask which letters spell the shared sound.
- No rhyme is used twice, so on a mixed sheet every word still has one partner.
Questions and answers
Do the rhyming worksheets come with an answer key?
Yes. The key prints as the last page, with every line drawn. To leave it off, untick Add an answer key as the last page under More options.
Can I use this as a rhyming worksheet for preschool?
With an adult reading, yes. The sheet has words and no pictures, so read each word aloud and let the child say which two sound alike. Set 1 has the shortest words.
Do words have to end in the same letters to rhyme?
No. Rhyme is about sound, not spelling. Bear and hair rhyme, and so do blue and two. Words that end in the same letters, such as bear and near, may not rhyme at all.
How were the rhymes checked?
Each pair ends in the same sounds, from the stressed vowel on, in a pronouncing dictionary of American English, and the two words share a rhyme in Wiktionary. A pair that rhymes only in some accents was left out.
Can I print my own rhyming pairs?
Yes. Type them in the box, one pair to a line, with an equals sign between the two words: frog = log. Your lines replace our set.