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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 17

Sound Play

Rhymes, sound words and tongue twisters

What your child practices

Hearing rhymes, sound words (like buzz and splash) and repeated beginning sounds, and noticing how they make texts fun to read.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.2(A); 1.9(B) · rhymes, alliteration and sound words

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Sound words copy sounds, like boom, buzz and pop.
  2. Rhyming words end the same: snow and glow.
  3. Tongue twisters start many words with the same sound.

Example: Which one is a sound word? buzz, tree or green? Which word copies a sound? Bees go buzz! Answer: buzz

Sound Play in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 12 of 17 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Word Jobs and before Think It Through.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which words rhyme?

    • moon and mop
    • moon and spoon
    • spoon and spin

  2. Question 2

    Which sound word goes with a duck?

    • tick
    • quack
    • woof

  3. Question 3

    Which sentence starts many words with the same sound?

    • The dog ran home.
    • Silly snakes slide slowly.
    • Birds fly high.

  4. Question 4

    Which sound word goes with a cow?

    • moo
    • pop
    • tick

  5. Question 5

    Which word rhymes with fish?

    • fin
    • dish
    • fist

  6. Question 6

    Which word rhymes with sun?

    • run
    • sit
    • sad

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