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: “make” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) tell (b) free (c) sea (d) bake
- 3.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) block (b) fight (c) main (d) bee
- 4.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) tell (b) sock (c) sea (d) lake
- 5.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) brain (b) bun (c) plane (d) sell
- 6.🎵 Which word does “rake” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) night (d) bell
- 7.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) three (b) spring (c) bright (d) lane
- 8.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) change it each day (b) say it aloud often (c) never say it (d) read it once silently
- 9.🎵 Which word does “sock” rhyme with? (a) king (b) bell (c) clock (d) rain
- 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bun (b) lock (c) done (d) snake
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) swing (b) block (c) spring (d) sing
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) fight (b) key (c) lock (d) make
- 13.🎵 Which word does “make” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) sun (d) clock
- 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) one (b) world (c) star (d) planet
- 15.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) well (b) rock (c) done (d) smell
- 16.🎵 Which word does “won” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) sun (c) tree (d) cake
- 17.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) again (b) twice (c) more (d) fast
- 18.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) smell (b) knee (c) sell (d) knock
- 19.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) fast (c) free (d) long
- 20.🎵 Which word does “light” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) tree (c) night (d) bell
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) bee (c) smell (d) well
- 22.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) night (c) clock (d) king
- 23.True or false: “shake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 24.True or false: “well” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) bee (b) thing (c) light (d) sell
- 26.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) main (b) cane (c) train (d) bite
- 27.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) say (b) write (c) know (d) learn
- 28.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) known (b) right (c) clear (d) true
- 29.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) knock (c) sock (d) tea
- 31.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) well (b) sell (c) shell (d) cane
- 32.🎵 Which word does “knock” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) tree (c) clock (d) bell
- 33.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) knee (b) wake (c) bake (d) snake
- 34.🎵 Which word does “bun” rhyme with? (a) king (b) sun (c) cake (d) clock
- 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) bite (b) spring (c) three (d) swing
- 36.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) plane (b) bee (c) light (d) lane
- 37.🎵 Which word does “thing” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) sun (c) king (d) clock
- 38.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they need no practice (b) they are longer (c) sound patterns stick (d) they are always true
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bite (b) make (c) key (d) shock
- 40.🎵 Which word does “sea” rhyme with? (a) king (b) sun (c) tree (d) cake
Answer key
- True
- bake
- fight
- sea
- bun
- cake
- bright
- say it aloud often
- clock
- snake
- block
- lock
- cake
- one
- rock
- sun
- more
- knock
- free
- night
- bee
- night
- True
- False
- thing
- bite
- know
- true
- True
- tea
- cane
- clock
- knee
- sun
- bite
- light
- king
- sound patterns stick
- make
- tree
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