3. • Words that rhyme have the same end sound.
• Sometimes they have the same ending letters which helps us
know they rhyme.
• For example: cat and mat, loud and proud,
dress and mess
• Sometimes they have different ending letters, but are still
rhyming words as they make the same sound.
• For example: cheese and peas,
fly and eye, whale and snail
4. You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups
of words that use the same sounds. This is called
a rhyme scheme.
5. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the
words that rhyme with each other. This will help you see the
pattern of the poem.
For example:
•If a poem's first and third lines rhyme you should label those A.
•If the second and fourth lines of the poem rhyme, label these B.
•Then you can see your four line poem has an A B A B rhyme
scheme.
If all four lines rhyme with each other, this would be an A A A
A rhyme scheme.
You could also have an A A B B rhyme scheme, or A B B A. There
are lots of possibilities!
6. You are now going to create some rhyming word pairs which you will use later to write
a poem about an animal.
First choose your animal and think about what they are like.
• What colour is your animal?
• What do they eat?
• How do they act?
• What noises do they make?
Now think of some rhyming word pairs about your animal and write them down.
See if you can create at least six different rhyming pairs.
Don't worry if they don't quite make sense, just write them all down to see what you
can come up with.
Top tip
First think of a word that links to your animal and then think of a rhyming word to go
with it. For example:
• bee - see buzz - fuzz black - sack
yellow - mellow wings - sings flower - power
7. Now you are going to write a poem about your animal using the rhyming
pairs you came up with previously.
The poem should be four lines long and follow the A A B B rhyme scheme.
Choose two of your rhyming pairs. You will use these at the end of each
line.
One pair will be at the end of lines one and two.
The second pair will be at the end of lines three and four.
For example:
Bertie the bee buzzed up to a flower
And sucked up the nectar that gave him power.
Now Bertie was a super strong bee
So he flew back to his beehive for all the others to see.
C: Can you carry on and write another four lines using the same rhyme
scheme?
