The best rhyming games online. All reviewed and all on one page.
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Partners in Rhyme by Turtle Diary
This game from the ‘Turtle Diary’ website is designed for preschool children but could be used with slightly older kids. In the game, kids have to match pairs of rhyming words correctly. It’s easy to play and there are lots of examples.
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Rhyme Time by PBS Kids
PBS Kids have produced another fun animated rhyming game called Rhyme Time with a Sesame Street character for pre-schoolers. All the words are narrated with pictures, so the game can be played by children who haven’t learned to read yet.
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PBS Kids have several other rhyming games on their website although we couldn’t access them all from our location. We did try the following ones…
Wonder Red’s Rhyme Racer by PBS Kids
This game provides a choice of easy or hard words. The easy option contains CVC word families.
The hard words are a bit more advanced than some of the others on this page. It’s designed for kids who can already read more complex words such as ‘boat’ or ‘cake’.
However, the words are narrated in both the easy and hard versions so it would be possible to do this game with a child who isn’t a strong reader.
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Story Book Builder by PBS Kids
This game uses narrated rhyming verses, so kids don’t need to be able to read to play it. They also get to choose a Sesame Street character in the story and they can decide what the character gets up to.
Kids don’t really have to make any decisions about rhyme in this game, but the animations are very well produced and there is a lot of interesting rhyme and narration in it.
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Rhyme Time by Words and Pictures
This game originates from the Education Services of Australia.
Students choose pairs of words that rhyme in this activity and then create a short phrase with the words. The words are spoken when you click on them, so the activity is suitable for children who can’t read yet.
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There are some free rhyming games on the ‘Roy the Zebra’ site.
This is a completely free site, but there are some ads that encourage you to join a paid version of the site.
You can access some free printables and there are 3 free rhyming games…
Bees’ Words that Rhyme with Bug by Roy the Zebra
Words appear when you click on the bees in this game. Some rhyme with bug and some don’t and the idea is to drag the rhyming ones into a list in the middle.
There’s no narration, so the games would be more suitable for kids who can read.
However, a non reader might get some benefit from it if they were supported by an adult who could read each word for them.
The game is quite simple but it does provide plenty of examples and it could also be useful to talk about why some of the words don’t rhyme.
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Belinda’s Words that Rhyme with Cat by Roy the Zebra
This game is very similar to the other Roy the Zebra game (Words that Rhyme with Bug) we described above.
There’s no narration on the game, so it would be best to use it with kids who can read, or it might be OK with a non reader supported by an adult who can read each word for them.
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Ryan’s Words That Rhyme with Hill
This game has a similar format to the ‘words that rhyme with bug’ Roy the Zebra game described above.
Again, there’s no narration on the game, so it could only be used with kids who can read or with a non reader supported by an adult who can read each word for them.
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RHYME TIME PICTURE MATCH-UP – Quia.com
In this simple game, students just click on the pictures of words that rhyme. The game indicates if their choices are correct or not.
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Concentration – Quia.com
This game is similar to the Picture Match-Up game described above except students have to click on each box to reveal the pictures and words and it also requires them to memorise where each object is on the grid.
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Further Resources:
Another way to access free online games and activities is to register with some of the specialist reading programmes that offer free trials.
For example:
Parents and teachers can register for a 30-day free trial with Reading Eggs. This allows you to access over 500 highly interactive games and fun animations for developing Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension.
A 30-day free trial is also available from ABCmouse.com. This is a leading online educational website for children ages 2–8. With more than 9,000 interactive learning activities that teach reading, math, science, art, music, and more.
Although it’s not quite free, you can get a 30-day trial with the award-winning Hooked on Phonics programme for just $1.
IXL Learning cover 8000 skills in 5 subjects including phonics and reading comprehension. You can click on the following link to access a 7-day free trial if you live in the US.
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You might also find our article on Phonological/Phonemic Awareness Activities for Parents and Teachers useful.