Year 1 Nursery rhymes: reading poetry worksheet

“Words that rhyme” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 English unit “Nursery rhymes: reading poetry”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 17 to 18 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Words that rhyme

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can find words that rhyme and say how I know they rhyme.

A Look back3 min

Some quick ones from earlier learning. Read each one carefully.

1.
Circle the sentence that is written correctly.
The sheep ran off.The sheep ran offthe sheep ran off.
2.
Circle the missing letter in a, b, ?, d.
cef
3.
Circle the name that is written correctly.
samSamsaM

B Watch me, then you4 min

Sam sings a rhyme. He wants to know which words rhyme with each other.

Watch me

Say peep, then sheep, out loud.

Both words end with the sound 'eep'.

So peep and sheep rhyme.

Now you

1.
Which word rhymes with cat? Circle it.
doghatcup
2.
Which word rhymes with pig? Circle it.
bigbedbat

C Your turn6 min

Say each word out loud. Listen to the very end of the word, then circle the rhyme.

A green field with a low wooden gate and a few fluffy white sheep

1.
Which word rhymes with ball? Circle it.
bagwallpen
2.
Which word rhymes with bee? Circle it.
treebedbean
3.
Which word rhymes with lamp? Circle it.
lapramplime
4.
Circle the words that rhyme with hop.
topmophotdog

Say it out loud: Which sound did you listen for at the end of each pair? Did it change from row to row?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Ola says: “Dog and deep rhyme because they both start with d.”

1.
Is Ola right? Write why.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Here is a line: I can see a hat. Write the next line. End it with a word that rhymes with hat. Tell your grown-up how you know.

How did it feel?

Say one rhyme to your grown-up with a worried voice, then a happy voice. Which one felt more fun to say?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Words that rhyme · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. The sheep ran off. If they pick the one with no full stop or a small letter at the start, ask: where does a sentence start, and where does it stop?

2. c If they circle e, they may be skipping a letter. Ask: what letter comes straight after b?

3. Sam

B

1. hat If they pick dog, they may think rhyming words start the same. Ask them to say the end sound of cat and of dog.

2. big

C

1. wall If they pick bag, they matched the first letter b. Ask them to say the last sound of ball and of bag.

2. tree If they pick bed or bean, they matched the first letter. Ask them to say the end sound of bee and of bean.

3. ramp

4. top, mop

D

1. Look for: Says no, because dog and deep end with different sounds; rhyme is about the end sound, not the first letter. If they say yes, they are listening to the first letter. Ask them to say only the last sound of each word.

E

1. Look for: A second line whose last word rhymes with hat (cat, mat, sat, bat and so on), plus a reason about the end sound.

Words to use

Say“Say both words out loud. What sound is at the very end of each one?”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer, or say it is right when it is not.”

After the sheet

Sing a nursery rhyme you both know. Sing two lines worried and two lines happy, then swap who is the performer and who is the audience.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Rhyming words in rhymes(with a plan)
Ducks that count down(with a plan)
Noisy Words(with a plan)
Nursery rhyme performance(with a plan)

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