Rhyme Catcher

• Kindergarten–1st grade
• Ages 5–7
• Free, no sign-up

Word bubbles float through the water. Your child catches the ones that rhyme with the word on the screen, like hat and bat for cat, and lets the others float away. Each caught word is read aloud.

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About the game

How to play

1. Read the target. Catch words that rhyme with cat.
2. Read the bubbles. Look at the end of each word.
3. Catch! Tap the rhyming ones. Each is read aloud.
4. Keep your lives. Wrong catches cost a life.

For parents: what Rhyme Catcher practices

Rhyme Catcher builds rhyme awareness and reading of word families: rhyming words end with the same sound and often the same letters. It pairs with:

• Rhyming words
• Word families
• Rhyme Rocket

Common Core: RF.K.2a (recognize and produce rhyming words), RF.K.3, RF.1.3.

Getting the most out of it

• Say both words out loud: cat, hat. Do they end the same?
• Look at the last letters of each word.
• Make up silly rhymes: a cat in a hat on a mat!

Games are best as a reward or a warm-up, not the main lesson. Ten minutes of play after a short lesson works better than an hour of play on its own.

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• Rhyme RocketTap the picture that rhymes to fuel the rocket.Kindergarten–1st grade
• Syllable DrumDrum once for each syllable in a word.Kindergarten–1st grade
• Ending Sounds HuntSort pictures by their last sound.Kindergarten–1st grade

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Last reviewed: November 11, 2026

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