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.🎵 Which word does “key” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) sun (c) night (d) tree
- 2.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) fun (b) spring (c) tell (d) shake
- 3.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) done (b) fight (c) spring (d) snake
- 4.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) bell (c) king (d) rain
- 5.🎵 Which word does “sock” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) king (c) clock (d) sun
- 6.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) rain (c) sun (d) cake
- 7.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) white (b) shell (c) light (d) write
- 8.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) saying it once quietly (b) a beat or a tune (c) writing it tiny (d) no rhythm at all
- 9.True or false: “sell” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) sea (c) block (d) lock
- 11.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) true (b) known (c) clear (d) right
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) cane (b) sell (c) lane (d) won
- 13.🎵 Which word does “run” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) clock (c) sun (d) king
- 14.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) bee (c) shell (d) smell
- 15.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) cold (b) free (c) long (d) fast
- 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) ring (b) sock (c) bright (d) knee
- 17.True or false: “light” rhymes with “bell”. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) ended (c) done (d) over
- 19.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) tree (d) rain
- 20.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) rain (d) sun
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spell (b) spring (c) shell (d) sell
- 22.True or false: “run” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) change it each day (b) never say it (c) read it once silently (d) say it aloud often
- 24.True or false: “plane” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) write (b) say (c) know (d) learn
- 26.🎵 Which word does “rake” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) king (c) bell (d) cake
- 27.True or false: “block” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🎵 Which word does “bee” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) clock (c) king (d) tree
- 29.True or false: “thing” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) again (c) twice (d) more
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) fun (b) ton (c) light (d) smell
- 32.🎵 Which word does “make” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) tree (c) cake (d) night
- 33.True or false: “string” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 34.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) run (b) fun (c) done (d) sing
- 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) main (b) lock (c) sea (d) kite
- 36.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) one (b) run (c) ton (d) snake
- 37.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) brain (b) sock (c) train (d) write
- 38.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) ton (b) sock (c) wing (d) train
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tea (b) won (c) free (d) key
- 40.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) bright (b) rock (c) wake (d) wing
Answer key
- tree
- tell
- done
- rain
- clock
- cake
- shell
- a beat or a tune
- False
- sea
- true
- sell
- sun
- bee
- free
- bright
- False
- done
- rain
- cake
- spring
- False
- say it aloud often
- False
- know
- cake
- True
- tree
- False
- more
- smell
- cake
- True
- sing
- lock
- snake
- sock
- ton
- won
- wake
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