Mnemonics Worksheet: Memory Rhymes
Memory tip (Say it with a beat): Put the fact first, then end the line with a rhyming word: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little tricks.” Rhyming words share an ending sound: cake – lake – snake; night – kite – light; sun – run – one. Say it aloud with a beat, again and again, until it sings itself.
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- 1.True or false: “bee” rhymes with “bell”. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) main (b) thing (c) ring (d) swing
- 3.🎵 Which word does “rake” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) tree (c) cake (d) king
- 4.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) songs (b) steps (c) tricks (d) games
- 5.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) make (b) snake (c) kite (d) rake
- 6.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they are always true (b) sound patterns stick (c) they are longer (d) they need no practice
- 7.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) snake (c) shake (d) make
- 8.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) cane (c) shell (d) spell
- 9.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) twice (c) more (d) again
- 10.True or false: “cane” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) cane (b) tell (c) plane (d) train
- 12.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) ton (b) fun (c) one (d) bite
- 13.True or false: “smell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) bell (c) sun (d) cake
- 15.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lock (b) rock (c) fun (d) knock
- 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) tea (b) sing (c) brain (d) ton
- 17.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) write (b) wing (c) bake (d) snake
- 18.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) say it aloud often (b) change it each day (c) read it once silently (d) never say it
- 19.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) brain (b) sell (c) rake (d) fun
- 20.🎵 Which word does “fun” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) tree (c) king (d) rain
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wing (b) swing (c) shock (d) string
- 22.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) main (b) train (c) cane (d) wing
- 23.🎵 Which word does “three” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) sun (d) king
- 24.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) free (c) fast (d) long
- 25.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) king (b) clock (c) bell (d) rain
- 26.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) three (b) wing (c) wake (d) smell
- 27.🎵 Which word does “sea” rhyme with? (a) king (b) rain (c) night (d) tree
- 28.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tea (b) ring (c) string (d) spring
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) make (b) lake (c) rake (d) rock
- 30.True or false: “sell” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) sea (b) run (c) sell (d) shock
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) write (b) one (c) main (d) rock
- 33.True or false: “knee” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sing (b) spring (c) wing (d) won
- 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) shake (b) three (c) block (d) brain
- 36.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) run (b) sea (c) bite (d) make
- 37.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) done (c) over (d) ended
- 38.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) no rhythm at all (b) writing it tiny (c) a beat or a tune (d) saying it once quietly
- 39.🎵 Which word does “write” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) king (c) night (d) tree
- 40.🎵 Which word does “wake” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) cake (c) bell (d) clock
Answer key
- False
- main
- cake
- tricks
- kite
- sound patterns stick
- spring
- cane
- more
- True
- tell
- bite
- True
- rain
- fun
- sing
- wing
- say it aloud often
- sell
- sun
- shock
- wing
- tree
- free
- king
- smell
- tree
- tea
- rock
- False
- shock
- rock
- False
- won
- three
- bite
- done
- a beat or a tune
- night
- cake
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