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 “sing” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) sun (c) king (d) tree
- 2.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) over (b) learnt (c) ended (d) done
- 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) sell (c) smell (d) block
- 4.🎵 Which word does “smell” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) cake (c) king (d) night
- 5.🎵 Which word does “bite” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) sun (c) bell (d) night
- 6.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) spring (b) tell (c) three (d) shake
- 7.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) train (b) fight (c) snake (d) spell
- 8.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) sing (b) bright (c) bun (d) knee
- 9.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) wake (c) lake (d) plane
- 10.True or false: “fight” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🎵 Which word does “kite” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) king (c) night (d) cake
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) fun (b) string (c) sea (d) well
- 13.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) one (b) ton (c) won (d) shock
- 14.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) run (b) kite (c) block (d) tell
- 15.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) saying it once quietly (b) writing it tiny (c) a beat or a tune (d) no rhythm at all
- 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) fun (c) ton (d) bun
- 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fight (b) smell (c) white (d) kite
- 18.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) lane (b) train (c) sea (d) smell
- 19.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) fast (b) cold (c) long (d) free
- 20.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) write (b) sock (c) spell (d) knock
- 21.True or false: “spell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) True (b) False
- 22.True or false: “chain” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) free (b) spring (c) snake (d) knee
- 24.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) tree (c) clock (d) rain
- 25.🎵 Which word does “chain” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) bell (c) cake (d) rain
- 26.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “night”. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) smell (c) spell (d) main
- 28.True or false: “brain” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spell (b) shake (c) shell (d) sell
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) spring (b) sing (c) white (d) thing
- 31.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they need no practice (b) they are always true (c) sound patterns stick (d) they are longer
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) well (b) bite (c) brain (d) thing
- 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) block (b) train (c) sing (d) won
- 34.🎵 Which word does “thing” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) king (d) night
- 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) light (b) lane (c) rock (d) knee
- 36.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) write (b) plane (c) lane (d) cane
- 37.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) tell (b) bun (c) white (d) key
- 38.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) night (b) cake (c) rain (d) tree
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “tree”? (a) spell (b) brain (c) thing (d) bee
- 40.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) read it once silently (b) say it aloud often (c) change it each day (d) never say it
Answer key
- king
- done
- block
- bell
- night
- three
- train
- knee
- plane
- True
- night
- string
- shock
- block
- a beat or a tune
- tell
- smell
- sea
- free
- write
- True
- False
- snake
- rain
- rain
- False
- main
- True
- shake
- white
- sound patterns stick
- brain
- won
- king
- light
- write
- white
- cake
- bee
- say it aloud often
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