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