What is Words that rhyme at the beginning?

Words that rhyme at the beginning are words that sound similar when you start speaking them.

Imagine you have a box of toys, some red, some blue, and some green. Now imagine all the red toys make a ting sound when you shake them, and all the blue ones make a pong sound. If you pick up two red toys, they both say ting. That’s like words that rhyme at the beginning, they start with sounds that match.

When we talk about words rhyming at the beginning, we're looking at the first part of the word, like the first letter or letters. For example:

• Cat
• Bat
• Hat

All these words start with a b sound (or k for "cat"), and they all feel similar when you say them out loud, just like how your red toys all make the same sound.

You can think of it like matching socks in the laundry. If two socks have the same color on the top, that’s like words that rhyme at the beginning, they match at the start!