English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 2 Reading Literature - Rhyming Words (Questions)

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This quiz is all about Rhyming Words. This quiz helps elementary school children identify rhyming words. Using rhyming words in their poems and stories will add to their existing knowledge of literacy and English. Students should be able to appreciate rhymes and thus be able to identify them when reading or reciting a poem.

A rhyme is when two words are different but they sound the same. The words ‘blue’ and ‘flew’ are completely different but they rhyme. Test your knowledge on rhyming words.

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Which word rhymes with hat?

[ ]	pit
[ ]	sat
[ ]	chin
[ ]	red

Which word rhymes with chair?

[ ]	pear
[ ]	head
[ ]	stone
[ ]	rubber

Which word rhymes with snail?

[ ]	whale
[ ]	fit
[ ]	fat
[ ]	shine

Which word rhymes with shark?

[ ]	shin
[ ]	fish
[ ]	bark
[ ]	happy

Which word rhymes with shin?

[ ]	thin
[ ]	hat
[ ]	slime
[ ]	lolly

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	red
[ ]	head
[ ]	bed
[ ]	show

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	shine
[ ]	fine
[ ]	lane
[ ]	line

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	string
[ ]	rat
[ ]	flat
[ ]	cat

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	king
[ ]	flight
[ ]	fling
[ ]	wing

10.

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	hop
[ ]	happy
[ ]	stop
[ ]	shop

English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 2 Reading Literature - Rhyming Words (Answers)

Which word rhymes with hat?

[ ]	pit
[x]	sat
[ ]	chin
[ ]	red

Words that rhyme often have the same letters in, like 'hat' and 'sat' both have 'at' in them.

Which word rhymes with chair?

[x]	pear
[ ]	head
[ ]	stone
[ ]	rubber

Often, words that rhyme will belong to the same phonics group. So 'air' and 'ear' make the same phonics sound.

Which word rhymes with snail?

[x]	whale
[ ]	fit
[ ]	fat
[ ]	shine

The sounds 'ai', 'ay' and 'a_e' are all in the same phonics group. This means any words with these sounds in them will rhyme.

Which word rhymes with shark?

[ ]	shin
[ ]	fish
[x]	bark
[ ]	happy

A whale shark can be up to 14 meters long - now that's scary!

Which word rhymes with shin?

[x]	thin
[ ]	hat
[ ]	slime
[ ]	lolly

The shin is the area at the front of your leg, below the knee.

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	red
[ ]	head
[ ]	bed
[x]	show

The red stripes on the American flag stand for courage.

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	shine
[ ]	fine
[x]	lane
[ ]	line

If you study light, then you would say you study optics.

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[x]	string
[ ]	rat
[ ]	flat
[ ]	cat

Some cats can jump up to five times their own height.

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	king
[x]	flight
[ ]	fling
[ ]	wing

King George VI was the king before our current queen - Queen Elizabeth.

10.

Which word doesn't belong in this group?

[ ]	hop
[x]	happy
[ ]	stop
[ ]	shop

A female rabbit is called a doe and a male is called a buck.