Hello, my name's Grace, and welcome to Part 2 of Rhyming Words.
Rhyming words are everywhere, in songs, in poems, in TV jingles, and in nursery rhymes.
Did you know that some nursery rhymes date back to the middle ages?
A time when kings and queens ruled, and knights rode on horseback to fight in wars.
In this video you'll learn about rhymes, or same sounds in words when the spelling is different.
Be sure to catch the lesson in the first video, Rhyming Words 1, before continuing.
Rhyme is the repetition of same or similar ending sounds.
In the first video, we looked at rhymes when the ending of the words are spelled exactly the same.
For example, "tall, and, "small," are rhyming words because they have the same ending sound.
That ending sound also happens to be spelled with the same letters, "-all."
The beginning sound and spellings are different, but the end sounds and spellings are the same.
And so, these two words rhyme.
Did you know that you can also rhyme when the ending spelling is completely different?
Let's look at some examples.
The word, "red," rhymes with, "bed,"
and in this case they are spelled with the same, "-ed," ending,
but, "red," also rhymes with, "bread," and, "said."
Each of these words have a different ending than, "-ed,"
yet they still rhyme.
"Bread," ends with, -"ead," and, "said," ends with, "-aid."
Even though they are spelled differently, they are all considered to be rhyming words
because they have the same ending sound.
Red, bed, bread, said.
Let's look at another example.
The word, "blue," rhymes with, "clue," and in this case, they are spelled with the same, "-ue," ending,
but, "blue," also rhymes with, "shoe," "flew,"
"you," "zoo," "gnu," "do," and "statue."
Wow!
Did you notice how differently these words are spelled from, "blue," yet they still rhyme?
"Shoe," ends in "-oe."
"Flew," ends in, "-ew."
"You," ends in, "-ou."
"Zoo," ends in, "-oo."
"Gnu," ends in, "-u."
"Do," ends in, "-o."
"Statue," ends in, "-ue."
Even though these words are spelled differently, they are all considered to be rhyming words
because they sound the same to our ears.
As the examples in this video have illustrated,
sometimes words that are spelled differently at the end can still rhyme.
The opposite is true as well.
Sometimes words that are spelled the same at the end won't rhyme at all.
For example, "rough," "cough," and "dough," all end in, "-ough,"
but they all sound very different. Don't they?
Rough, cough, dough.
Clearly, the best way of checking whether two words rhyme or not, is to say them out loud.
You can also use a rhyming dictionary to find words that rhyme with each other.
You can find rhyming dictionaries at your library and even online.
Don't forget that you can keep practicing everything you learn about words
with our fun online games and quizzes.
Until next time, always be clever, ever, forever!