About Teacher Rhyme Time

As an English teacher, I love to stress to my students that vocabulary, reading, and writing don't just have to be tedious tasks completed for school. We play a word game daily called rhyme time. You may have seen the game on Jeopardy, or you may know it from Richard Lederer's fantastic books, where the game is known as Ink Pink.

Rhyme Time works simply. The students are given a clue, and the answer is a two-word rhyming phrase. For instance, if the clue is "an obese feline", the answer is a "fat cat". "A tiny space divider" is a "small wall". "An assault on tooth decay" is a "plaque attack". Some clues might have more than one correct answer. That's the basic idea. Got it?

I'll be posting a few of these weekly, after my students have had their shot at them. Usually, Monday's Rhyme Time is the easiest and they grow progressively harder. When you click on "Comments" you'll be provided with the answers.