Intro to Poetry: Rhyme

Ages 5–8 · 11 minutes · English

It's rhyme time!

In this lesson, students will be introduced to rhyming in poems.

Part of

Poetry for Early Readers

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Alabama

ELA21.2.32 — Identify rhyme schemes in poems or songs.
ELA21.K.9c — Recognize and produce pairs of rhyming words and distinguish them from non-rhyming pairs using pictures and/or spoken words.
ELA21.1.6b — Recognize and produce groups of rhyming words and distinguish them from non-rhyming groups of spoken words.
ELA21.1.9c — Participate in poetry reading, noticing phrasing, rhythm, and rhyme.

Alaska

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Identify words and phrases that supply rhythm or sensory images and meaning in a story, poem, or song (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) and describe how they make a reader feel or what a reader might see in his or her mind.

Arizona

K.RF.2.b — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
1.RF.2.e — Orally generate a series of rhyming words using a variety of phonograms (e.g., -ed, -ake, -ant, ain) and consonant blends (e.g., /bl/, /st/, /tr/).
2.RL.4 — Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Arkansas

K.CC.1.OL — Participate in collaborative conversations.

California

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Colorado

RWC20-GR.K-S.2-GLE.3-EO.b.i — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.1-EO.b.iv — Follow and replicate patterns in predictable poems.
RWC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.1-EO.b.i — Describe how words and phrases (for example: regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Connecticut

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Delaware

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

Florida

ELA.K.F.1.2 — Demonstrate phonological awareness. • Blend and segment syllables in spoken words. • Identify and produce alliterative and rhyming words. • Blend and segment onset and rimes of single-syllable words. • Identify the initial, medial, and final sound of spoken words. • Add or delete phonemes at the beginning or end of a spoken word and say the resulting word. • Segment and blend phonemes in single-syllable spoken words.
ELA.K.R.1.4 — Identify rhyme in a poem.
ELA.2.R.1.4 — Identify rhyme schemes in poems.

Georgia

ELAGSEKRF2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
ELAGSE2RL4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
ELAGSEKRF2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Hawaii

K.RF.2a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
2.RL.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
K.RF.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Idaho

K.FR.PA.2a — Identify and produce rhyming words.
2.RC.WB.2c — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., rhymes, alliteration) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
K.FR.PA.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.

Illinois

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Indiana

K.RF.4 — Identify and produce rhyming words.

Iowa

RF.K.2.e — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

Kansas

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.K.13 — Listen to high quality prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for Kindergarten.

Kentucky

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and orally produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases, including but not limited to regular beats, alliteration, rhymes and/ or repeated lines, supply rhythm and shape meaning in a story, poem or song.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common structures of poems, stories and dramas.

Louisiana

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrase supply rhythm and meaning in a poem or song; determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text.

Maine

R.2.K.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
R.7.2.a — Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a text.

Maryland

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Massachusetts

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common types of texts and characteristics of their structure (e.g., story elements in books; rhyme, rhythm, and repetition in poems).

Michigan

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Minnesota

0.1.1.1.a — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables and sounds (phonemes): identify and orally produce rhyming words, onset-rime and alliteration.
1.1.8.1 — Recognize how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem or song.
0.1.8.1 — Recognize rhythm, alliteration and repeated lines in a story, poem or song read aloud.

Mississippi

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Missouri

K.R.2.B.a — respond to rhythm and rhyme through identifying a regular beat and similarities in word sounds
K.RF.2.A.b — producing rhymes in response to spoken words
K.RF.2.A.c — distinguishing orally presented rhyming pairs of words from non-rhyming pairs
1.R.2.B.a — use rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration through identifying a regular beat and similarities in word sounds

Montana

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Nebraska

LA.K.F.2.b — Recognize and begin to produce oral rhymes.
LA.K.F.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Nevada

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

New Hampshire

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

New Jersey

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

New Mexico

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

New York

KRF2a — Recognize and produce spoken rhyming words.
KRF2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

North Carolina

RF.K.3.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.3 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

North Dakota

K.F.4 — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
1.R.8 — Use a variety of fiction texts.

Ohio

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes (sounds).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Oklahoma

K.2.PA.2 — Students will distinguish rhyming and non-rhyming pairs and produce a rhyme when given a word.
PK.2.PA.2 — Students will recognize spoken words that rhyme (e.g., wall & fall).
K.2.F.2 — Students will recite familiar texts (e.g., rhymes, songs, poetry, etc.).

Oregon

K.RF.2a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
2.RL.4 — Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
K.RF.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.1.K.C — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). • Recognize and produce rhyming words. • Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. • Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. • Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sound (phonemes) in the three-phoneme (CVC) words.
CC.1.3.2.F — Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
CC.1.1.PK.C — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). • Recognize rhyming words and when two or more words begin with the same sound (alliteration). • Count syllables in spoken words. • Segment single-syllable spoken words. • Segment single-syllable spoken words.

Rhode Island

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common types of texts and characteristics of their structure (e.g., story elements in books; rhyme, rhythm, and repetition in poems).
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. (See grade 2 Language standards 4–6 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading.)

South Carolina

ELA.K.F.1.3 — Recognize and produce pairs of rhyming words and distinguish them from non-rhyming pairs using pictures and/or spoken words.
ELA.1.F.1.3 — Recognize and produce pairs of rhyming words and distinguish them from non-rhyming pairs in spoken words.
ELA.K.AOR.1.2 — Identify forms of figurative language to include alliteration and onomatopoeia, as well as descriptive words and rhyme in text.
ELA.K.F.3.5.INIS — Students are expected to use pictures and spoken words when working with rhyming words depending on the objective of the lesson.

South Dakota

K.RF.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
2.RL.4 — Describe how words and phrases create rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
K.RF.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Tennessee

K.FL.PA.2.a — Recognize and begin to produce rhyming words.
K.FL.PA.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
K.RL.RRTC.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poems of appropriate complexity for Kindergarten.

Texas

1.9B — discuss rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and alliteration in a variety of poems;
K.2A.i — identifying and producing rhyming words;
K.8B — discuss rhyme and rhythm in nursery rhymes and a variety of poems;
1.2A.i — producing a series of rhyming words;
3.9B — explain rhyme scheme, sound devices, and structural elements such as stanzas in a variety of poems;

Utah

K.R.2 — Demonstrate mastery of age-appropriate phonological awareness skills.
P4.R.2.a — Recognize rhyming words and alliteration.

Vermont

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.1.10 — With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Virginia

1.C.2.C — Participate in a variety of oral language activities, including choral speaking and recitation of short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns and refrains.
K.C.2.C — Participate in a variety of oral language activities, including choral speaking and recitation of short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns and refrains.

Washington

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Washington, D.C.

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RF.K.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.K.5 — Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

West Virginia

ELA.K.IV.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
ELA.2.7 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, and repeated lines) in literary text supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
ELA.K.8 — With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks or poems).

Wisconsin

ELA.K.RF.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
ELA.2.L.3.a — Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a text (e.g., alliteration, rhyme, repeated lines).
ELA.K.RF.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Wyoming

RF.K.2.a — Recognize and produce rhyming words.
RL.2.4 — Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.