Rhyming Poems For Kids
Fun Rhyming Poems To Boost Your Child’s Verbal And Literacy Skills
Nursery rhymes and rhyming poems for kids are an integral part of their early childhood. These poems for kids, which are at times funny and silly too, play a vital role in developing their cognitive and literacy skills. These poems filled with rhyming words for kids teach them about the English language. Additionally, these poems for kids help build phonemic awareness, which is necessary to learn words and also helps them speak fluently.
The rhymes in rhyming poems for kids might sound funny and silly to an adult. But for a kid, it helps them learn to read, write and speak fluently. These silly-sounding rhymes expose children to the rhythm, patterns and structure of the spoken and written language. It also teaches them about word families like get, bet, wet etc. It also helps them learn to predict what word comes next, which boosts their decoding skills. Rhyming poems for kids are a great way to introduce kids to the concept of rhyming words.
List Of Rhyming Poems For Kids
- A Million Little Diamonds
- Robin Redbreast
- The Cow
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Bed In Summer
- The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
- Two Little Dicky Birds
- Donkey, Donkey, Old And Gray
- Little Miss Muffet
- Our Kittens
- At The Zoo
12 Wonderful Rhyming Poems For Kids
Rhyming poems for kids are also a great way to teach children to read expressively or animatedly. This makes it less monotonous and more fun, which encourages and motivates kids to read more. We’ve compiled a list of rhyming poetry that is perfect for kids of all ages.
- A Million Little Diamonds
- Robin Redbreast
- The Cow
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Bed In Summer
- The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
- Two Little Dicky Birds
- Donkey, Donkey, Old And Gray
- Little Miss Muffet
- Our Kittens
- At The Zoo
By Mary Frances Butts
A million little diamonds
Twinkled on the trees;
And all the little children cried,
“A jewel, if you please!”
But while they held their hands outstretched
To catch the diamonds gay,
A million little sunbeams came
And stole them all away.
By William Allingham
Goodbye, goodbye to Summer!
For Summer’s nearly done;
The garden smiling faintly,
Cool breezes in the sun;
Our Thrushes now are silent,
Our Swallows flown away –
But Robin’s here, in coat of brown,
With ruddy breast-knot gay.
Robin, Robin Redbreast,
O Robin dear!
Robin singing sweetly
In the falling of the year.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The friendly cow, all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;
And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.
By Unknown
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone;
When she came there
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
By Unknown
Hey diddle diddle,
The Cat and the fiddle,
The Cow jumped over the moon,
The little Dog laughed to see such sport,
And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
By Unknown
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn’t know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Kissed them all soundly and sent them to bed.
By Unknown
Two Little Dicky Birds,
Sat upon a wall.
One named Peter,
The other named Paul,
Fly away Peter.
Fly away Paul.
Come back Peter!
Come back Paul!!
By Unknown
Donkey, Donkey,
Old and gray;
Open your mouth
And gently bray.
Lift your ears,
And blow your horn;
To wake up the world
This sleepy morn.
By Unknown
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away
Little Miss Muffet,
Sat on a Tuffet,
Eating her Bread and Jam,
Along came a Spider,
While she was Drinking her Cider,
And she ran away and her shoes fell off!
By Evaleen Stein
Our kittens have the softest fur,
And the sweetest little purr,
And such little velvet paws
With such cunning little claws,
And blue eyes, just like the sky!
(Must they turn green, by and by?)
Two are striped like tigers, three
Are as black as black can be,
And they run so fast and play
With their tails, and are so gay,
Is it not a pity that
Each must grow into a cat?
By William Makepeace Thackeray
First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;
Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;
Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw;
Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw;
Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk;
Then I saw the monkeys – mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!
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