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.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) world (b) planet (c) star (d) one
- 2.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) well (b) white (c) plane (d) rake
- 3.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) snake (b) chain (c) wake (d) ton
- 4.🎵 Which word does “bee” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) clock (c) rain (d) tree
- 5.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) kite (b) light (c) knee (d) fight
- 6.True or false: “main” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) cane (b) thing (c) tea (d) write
- 8.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) run (b) ring (c) main (d) rake
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) sock (c) ring (d) rock
- 10.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) tea (b) lane (c) block (d) white
- 11.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) ring (b) string (c) rake (d) sing
- 12.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) smell (c) tell (d) shell
- 13.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) light (b) knock (c) knee (d) lake
- 14.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) ring (b) lock (c) wake (d) key
- 15.🎵 Which word does “sea” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) king (c) clock (d) cake
- 16.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) say it aloud often (b) never say it (c) read it once silently (d) change it each day
- 17.True or false: “spring” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) games (b) songs (c) steps (d) tricks
- 19.True or false: “fight” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) smell (b) write (c) sell (d) shell
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rake (b) shell (c) snake (d) wake
- 22.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) done (b) won (c) fun (d) well
- 23.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) king (c) cake (d) rain
- 24.True or false: “shock” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🎵 Which word does “run” rhyme with? (a) night (b) king (c) sun (d) bell
- 26.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) sing (b) cane (c) free (d) bee
- 27.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) clear (b) right (c) known (d) true
- 28.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) bright (b) brain (c) fight (d) sea
- 29.True or false: “wing” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 30.True or false: “lake” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) thing (b) one (c) done (d) fun
- 32.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) night (b) clock (c) cake (d) tree
- 33.True or false: “rock” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 34.True or false: “ring” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🎵 Which word does “ton” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) night (c) cake (d) clock
- 36.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) fast (b) twice (c) more (d) again
- 37.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spell (b) chain (c) shell (d) sell
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) white (b) shell (c) make (d) cane
- 40.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) string (b) three (c) sing (d) swing
Answer key
- one
- rake
- ton
- tree
- knee
- False
- tea
- run
- ring
- white
- rake
- rock
- light
- lock
- tree
- say it aloud often
- True
- tricks
- False
- write
- shell
- well
- king
- False
- sun
- sing
- true
- brain
- True
- False
- thing
- night
- False
- False
- sun
- more
- True
- chain
- shell
- three
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