Year 1 English: Making new rhymes
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Making new rhymes
Poets choose rhyme words so their lines sound good together. You can make a new rhyme too. Keep the ending the same, and change the first letter or letters.
Take day. Change the d to p and you get play. Change the d to s and you get say. All three end in -ay, so they rhyme.
Read Autumn Leaves. The last words of lines 1 and 2 rhyme: down and town. Lines 5 and 6 rhyme too: round and ground.
Autumn LeavesRed and gold, the leaves fall down.
Off they float across the town.
Crunch, crunch, we stamp and play,
Kick them up and shout, “Hooray!”
The wind goes whoosh, the leaves go round,
Then they rest on the ground.
Key ideas
- To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same.
- Change the first letter or letters to make new words, like hop, mop and top.
- A new line can end with a word that rhymes with the line before it.
- Read your new rhyme aloud. Does it sound right?
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say hop and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.hop → -op
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -op.keep -op
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.top
Check. Say hop and top out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: top, mop, stop, pop or shop. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with hop.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say down and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.down → -own
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -own.keep -own
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.town
Check. Say down and town out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: town, brown or crown. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with down.
Method. Keep the rhyme word and its ending, then find the word that fits the line.
- Look at the rhyme word. Ground ends with -ound.ground → -ound
- Find a word that ends the same. Around ends with -ound too.around → -ound
- Write the word in the line. Read the whole line to check it makes sense.We skip and jump and turn around.
Check. Read the line aloud. around and ground rhyme. ✓
Watch out. Check that the new word fits the meaning of the line, not only the rhyme.
Watch out
Watch out: when you change a word to make a rhyme, change only the start. Hop becomes top, not tip. Changing the end breaks the rhyme.
Exam tip
Grown-up tip. Pick a word from the poem, such as day. Ask your child to change the first letter to make a new word that rhymes, then say it aloud. Try a few: hop, mop, stop. Your child can then make up a silly line that ends with one of them.
Exercise 9E Making new rhymes
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say day and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.day → -ay
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -ay.keep -ay
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.play
Check. Say day and play out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: play, say, way or stay. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with day.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say sun and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.sun → -un
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -un.keep -un
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.run
Check. Say sun and run out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: run, bun or fun. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with sun.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say ground and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.ground → -ound
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -ound.keep -ound
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.round
Check. Say ground and round out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: round, sound, found or around. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with ground.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say tree and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.tree → -ee
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -ee.keep -ee
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.bee
Check. Say tree and bee out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: bee, see, me or free. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with tree.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say hat and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.hat → -at
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -at.keep -at
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.cat
Check. Say hat and cat out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: cat, mat, sat, bat or rat. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with hat.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say pig and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.pig → -ig
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -ig.keep -ig
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.big
Check. Say pig and big out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: big, dig or wig. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with pig.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say bug and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.bug → -ug
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -ug.keep -ug
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.hug
Check. Say bug and hug out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: hug, mug, rug or jug. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with bug.
Key words. To make a new rhyme means to find another word that ends with the same sound.
Method. To make a new rhyme, keep the ending the same and change the start of the word.
- Say pen and listen to its ending. The ending is the part that sounds the same as the rhyme.pen → -en
- Keep the ending the same. A rhyme word must end with -en.keep -en
- Change the start and write a new word. A new first letter makes a new word with the same ending.ten
Check. Say pen and ten out loud. They end with the same sound. Also correct: ten, hen or den. ✓
Watch out. Change only the start of the word. Changing the end stops the word from rhyming with pen.
Key words. A rhyme is two words that end with the same sound.
Method. Rhyming words end with the same sound. Find the word that ends in -own, like town.
- Say town and listen to its ending. Rhyming words end with the same sound.town → -own
- Check the ending of each choice. Look at the end of each word, not the start.down → -own tree → -ee cup → -up
- Write the word that matches. down ends with -own, the same as town.down
Check. Say town and down out loud. They end with the same sound. ✓
Watch out. Do not pick a word because it starts with the same letter. Look at the end.
Method. Keep the -un ending of run, then find the word that fits the line.
- Look at the rhyme word. Run ends with -un.run → -un
- Find a word that ends the same. Fun ends with -un too.fun → -un
- Write the word in the line. Read the line to check it makes sense.lots of fun.
- Check the rhyme. Run and fun sound the same at the end.run and fun rhyme
Check. Read the whole poem line aloud. run and fun rhyme. ✓
Watch out. Read the whole line to check the meaning, not only the sound.
Method. Pick a rhyme word, then find another word that ends the same.
- Pick a rhyme word. Tree ends with -ee.tree → -ee
- Find another word that ends with -ee. Tea sounds the same at the end.tea → -ee
- Write a line with the word at the end. Read the line aloud to check it makes sense.We sit by the tree and drink our tea.
Check. Say the line aloud. The end words, tree and tea, rhyme. Also correct: any line ending in bee, see, me or free. ✓
Watch out. Check that the end word sounds the same. Spelling can look different, like tea and tree.
Method. Write the first line with sky at the end, then find a word that rhymes with sky.
- Start with sky. Sky is the end word of the first line.sky
- Find a word that rhymes with sky. By ends with the same sound as sky.sky → -y by → -y
- Write the two lines. Read them aloud to check the rhyme.The leaves float high in the sky.
Red and gold, they flutter by.
Check. Say the two lines aloud. sky and by rhyme. ✓
Watch out. Any two lines whose end words rhyme are correct.
Method. Look at the end of each word, then decide if they rhyme.
- Look at tap. Tap ends in -ap.tap → -ap
- Look at mop. Mop ends in -op.mop → -op
- Compare the endings. The endings are different, so the words do not rhyme.-ap and -op are different
- Write the answer. No. Tap and mop do not rhyme.
Check. Say tap and mop out loud. They sound different at the end. ✓
Watch out. Two words with the same first letter do not always rhyme.
Method. Keep the -ell ending, change the first letter, and explain what you did.
- Say bell and listen to its ending. The ending is -ell.bell → -ell
- Keep the ending the same. The new word must end with -ell too.keep -ell
- Change the first letter. A new first letter makes a new word with the same end.tell, well, sell
- Write the explanation. Keep the -ell ending, and change the first letter to make tell, well or sell.
Check. Say tell, well and sell. They all end with the same sound. ✓
Watch out. Say what you kept the same, and what you changed.