identifying rhyming words

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Module 10
Identifying Rhyming Words
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Dear Learner,
Hi! How are you today? In this module you will learn to
identify words that rhyme in poems you hear and read.
Before we read the poem let us meet these new words.
- broad (big road)
- strand (hair strand)
- pattern (drops of rain)
- droop (drooping flower)
- link (chain)
You will meet theses words when you read the poem.
But before reading the poem let us first answer the
questions.
How are long, tall and big things formed?
Do they come from tiny or little things?
Do you think tiny things are important?
As a grade three pupil what three little things can you do
for your friends?
Let Us Learn

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Read this poem.
Tiny grains of dry, light sand
Make up the long, broad strand,
Tiny drops of pattering rain,
The deep wide sea sustain.
What makes the long and broad strand?
What makes up the deep wide sea?
What makes up a darksome night?
What makes up a circle of love and laughter’s?
In the poem there are words that sound the same. Can you
identify them?
_____________ _____________ ______________
_______________ ________________
Don’t worry if your answer is wrong. You will learn about them
through the activities in this module.
I will help you understand.
Try This

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Read the poem.
A Little Mind in Wonder
1. Leaves so green
Fresh and lean
Branches so strong
Twigs are long
How do you describe the leaves?
How do you describe the branches? Twigs?
________ ________ _________
What words sound the same in the stanza?
1.______________ 3.______________
2.______________ 4.______________
2. Home for birds line 1
Shade for the herds line 2
A stool in a nook line 3
The cover of a book line 4
Do you hear words with the same sound in this stanza?
What are they?
1.______________ 3.______________
2.______________ 4.______________
Study This

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The word birds and herds have the same sound.
Where can you find them?
Are they found in the first part of the sentence?
At the last of the sentence?
What are the two words at the end of line 3 and line 4?
Do they sound the same? Yes or No
What do you think can we call these words?
Read the words again.
birds herds
book nook
When you read poems you can hear words that have the same
sound. They sound alike. They are usually found at the end of
the lines.
Example:
birds herds
book nook
These are called rhyming words.
Rhyming word are words which sound alike.
It makes the poem more meaningful and better to hear?
They are usually found at the end of the poem.

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Now, let’s try if you can identify the rhyming words.
1. Pick out the following words in this poem.
The chair where I sit
A table where I eat
The bed where I sleep
A box where memories I keep
Is your answer same as this?
sit – eat
sleep – keep
2. Pick out the rhyming words in
from poem again.
When I look at a tree
I wonder within me
How man could ever dare
For a tree not to care.
Is your answer same as this?
tree – me
dare - care
Let’s Do It

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Now let us have another activity.
Read the poem:
Little hands linked together,
Form a circle of love and laughter;
Little words in kindness spoken,
Can mend a heart that’s broken.
Below are birds and flowers with
Words in the poem.
Help the bird find the correct flower to show rhyming
words. Connect them with a line.
together spoken
broken laughter
Let’s Do This Once More

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Is your answer same as this?
together laughter
spoken broken
If your answers are correct you go to the activities A and B of
Check Yourself.
If not, answer the activity below.
Circle the words that rhyme with the underline word.
It is here that my roses grow.
Standing neatly in a row
Some are pink and some are white
Some are red others sunshine bright
They are all sweet and rare
No other flower with them compare
So come visit them with me
Finer sweets you will never see.
Below are fishes and worms, with words taken from the poem.
Help the fishes eat the correct worm to show rhyming words.
Connect them with a straight line.
Finished?
Compare
see
rare
me
Let’s Do It Again

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The answers are:
rare - compare
me - see
Did you get the correct answers?
If yes, answer the activity in “Test Yourself”
If no, answer the activity below.
Read the poem below:
The Wind
Oh’ Mother don’t you love the wind?
It circle round the hills
It makes my hair stand up on end
It makes my breath stand still
Oh, mother don’t you love the wind?
It whistle flying by
It makes an umbrella on my dress
And tumble up the sky.

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A. Base on the poem The Wind connect the rhyming words below.
A B
1. wind a. end
2. hill b. my
3. by c. still
Check your answers against the “check yourself” at the end of
this module.
A. List down the words that rhyme in the poem.
Tiny drops of pearly dew,
Cool some drooping flower anew;
Little flashes of tiny light,
Brighten many a darksome night.
1. ______________________ 2. __________________
3. ______________________ 4. __________________
Let’s find out how much have you learned.
• What do you call the words that have the same sound?
• Where can you usually find them?
Let’s Think It Over

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Read the poem.
Coming Back
I saw a leaf fall from a tree
I heard the buzz of a busy bee
I looked down a playground
And I heard the children round
I heard them cough and laugh
As they played games gentle and tough
I’m glad to see both girls and boys
Come forward for them to appear
On the coming of each school year
“Good Morning, my dear children.”
Remember
The words that have the same sound is
called rhyming words.
They are usually found at the end of the
lines in the poem
Test Yourself

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* Write in pairs the rhyming words found in the poem.
The first one is done for you.
1. ______________________ , ____________________
2. ______________________ , ____________________
3. ______________________ , ____________________
4. ______________________ , ____________________
• Now check your answers in the answer key at the end of this
module.
• Are all your answers correct? What’s your score?
Congratulations!
You are now ready to work on the next module.
Good luck!
Write in here
tree bee

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Let’s Do it Again
A. Match the words that rhyme in the poem
1. wind – end
2. hill – still
3. by – my
B. List down the words that rhyme in the poem
dew – new
light – night
Test Yourself
Write in pairs that rhyme words found in the poem.
1. tree – bee
2. playground – round
3. laugh – tough
4. appear – year
Answer Key

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Basic Education Assistance for Mindanao (BEAM) gratefully recognizes the special people who
have shared their expertise, skills, time and efforts which made the successful completion of this
Distance Learning Modules (English-Grade III), to wit:
Executive Committee
Dr. Ian D’Arcy Walsh – BEAM Australian Project Director
Mrs. Susana Teresa Estigoy – BEAM Phil. Project Manager
Mr. Roger Saunders – Materials Development Adviser
Mr. Ramon Bobier – Community Development Adviser
Deborah Helen Moulton – In-Service Adviser
Dr. Gloria Labor – BEAM Deputy Philippine Project Manager
Mrs. Emelita Salvado – Assistance Chief, Elementary Department
The Module Writers:
Ida Juezan – MT 1
Susan Obenza – Principal
Dee Silva – Principal
Dr. Grilleta N. Irava – Learning Area Specialist
The Access Team:
Access Program Regional Coordinators – Mrs. Rosemarie D. Ygente (GOA)
and Mrs. Helen Arancon (GOP)
Project Development Officers – Mrs. Josephine K. Calag (GOP)
and Genevieve Cervantes (GOA)
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A special thanks goes to Dr. Angelina C. Giducos, CESO V, Schools Division Superintendent of Davao
Del Sur for her strong leadership in providing most valuable technical support to the writers and being
responsible for helping BEAM implement this Distance Learning Program.

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