Bed and head

These words rhyme because they sound the same at the middle and end. Listen:

/b/, /ĕd/

/h/, /ĕd/

The part that says /ĕd/ is the same in both words. This makes them rhyming words.

I’m going to come up with a word that rhymes with chick. Hmmm.

Kick!

Do these words sound alike at the middle and end? Do they rhyme?

Egg and sun

Do these words sound the same after the first sound?

/ĕ/, /g/ and /s/, /ŭn/

No. Egg and sun do not rhyme because they don’t sound the same at the end … /g/ is not the same as /ŭn/.

Lake and bike

Do these words sound the same at the middle and end?

/l/, /āk/ and /b/, /īk/

They do both have the /k/ sound at the end, but they don’t rhyme because we’re looking at everything that comes after the first sound … the middle and the end. 

Lake and bike do not rhyme because /āk/ and /īk/ don’t sound the same.