Poems play with sounds. Many poems have rhyming words at the ends of lines. Words rhyme when they end with the same sound, like cat and hat, or rain and train.
Some words in poems sound like the noise they describe, such as splash, buzz or pitter-patter. These words help you hear what is happening. Read poems aloud: you will hear the rhymes and the rhythm, like a song.
Worked example
Which word rhymes with “sun”? fun, sit, moon
- Say each word aloud with sun.
- Sun and fun both end with “un”.
Answer:fun
Key words
- rhyme
- words that end with the same sound
- poem
- writing that plays with sounds and lines
- line
- one row of words in a poem
Practise this
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Common Core-referenced: RL.1.4