Time to Rhyme

When asked to write a poem, many children have difficulties because their vocabularies are limited. This book, which lists a set of very common words and all the common words that rhyme with them, will be invaluable to the youthful poet. There are two lists in the book. The first is a listing of 237 groups of words where all in the group rhyme and the second is an alphabetical list of all the words that appeared in the first. Also included is a set of illustrations with a short verse. They are simple, on the order of: Katie Baytee had a curse: She only spoke in rhymes and verse. Her mother took her to a nurse, But after that, her verse got worse. Written at the level of the late elementary child, this is an excellent reference book for the class when the assignment is to write a short poem.