Preschool Rhymes and Ending Sounds worksheets

About this worksheet

Two words rhyme when their endings sound the same, whatever happens at the front. Hearing that block and sock belong together is one of the strongest early signs that a child is ready for reading, because it means the child can attend to a part of a word rather than the whole of it. Everything here is answered by pointing at a picture, so nothing depends on reading. The first level offers three pictures, none of them a near miss.

The second adds a word that starts with the same sound as the picture but does not rhyme with it, which is the mistake almost every preschooler makes at least once: sock is offered against sun. The third level takes the picture away. The grown-up only says the word, and the child has to hold its ending in mind while looking for the rhyme. Say every choice out loud and let the child listen rather than look.

What your child will learn

• Hear when two spoken words end the same way
• Choose a rhyme for a familiar picture name
• Tell a rhyme apart from a word that only starts alike
• Hold a spoken word in mind and find its rhyme

Head Start ELOF standard: P-LIT 1, RF.K.2.A