 When I teach rhyme, a fun thing to do with my students is to teach them how to break up the word. So for example, I have the word cat. I have them put one sound on each finger. So we break up the word cat, ca, at. This is actually also called phonemic segmentation. It helps the kids break up the sound and see that there are three sounds in the word cat. Now I ask them to help me make a rhyme with the word cat. So if I had ca, at, all I need to do is change the beginning sound. I'd ask the kids for a sound. Maybe they give me the sound ha. Now I make ha, at, hat. Cat and hat are rhyming words. This is a fun way to come up with a new beginning sound to form a new word to make words rhyme.