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.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they need no practice (b) sound patterns stick (c) they are longer (d) they are always true
- 2.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) world (c) one (d) planet
- 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) shock (b) ring (c) lock (d) block
- 4.True or false: “main” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) shock (b) tea (c) shell (d) main
- 6.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) smell (b) bite (c) lane (d) wake
- 7.🎵 Which word does “main” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) king (c) tree (d) bell
- 8.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) wake (c) swing (d) make
- 9.🎵 Which word does “train” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) clock (c) rain (d) king
- 10.🎵 Which word does “shock” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) clock (c) king (d) night
- 11.True or false: “kite” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) tea (b) ton (c) sea (d) kite
- 13.True or false: “write” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 14.True or false: “key” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) over (b) ended (c) done (d) learnt
- 16.True or false: “plane” rhymes with “clock”. (a) False (b) True
- 17.True or false: “white” rhymes with “cake”. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🎵 Which word does “sell” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) cake (c) clock (d) bell
- 19.🎵 Which word does “bite” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) night (c) bell (d) cake
- 20.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) more (b) twice (c) again (d) fast
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fight (b) bright (c) kite (d) well
- 22.🎵 Which word does “brain” rhyme with? (a) king (b) rain (c) night (d) cake
- 23.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) right (b) clear (c) known (d) true
- 24.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) free (b) bite (c) white (d) kite
- 25.🎵 Which word does “three” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) bell (c) cake (d) tree
- 26.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) bright (b) wake (c) plane (d) spring
- 27.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) snake (b) lock (c) brain (d) run
- 28.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) lake (b) brain (c) fight (d) spring
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bake (b) shake (c) key (d) snake
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) swing (b) train (c) ring (d) thing
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) snake (b) sock (c) ring (d) fight
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) ring (b) shock (c) bee (d) smell
- 33.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) white (b) main (c) chain (d) knock
- 34.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) lake (b) spring (c) lane (d) sell
- 35.True or false: “bun” rhymes with “king”. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🎵 Which word does “sock” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) night (c) tree (d) cake
- 37.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) well (c) sell (d) thing
- 38.True or false: “ring” rhymes with “king”. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) fight (c) light (d) white
- 40.True or false: “sea” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- sound patterns stick
- one
- ring
- False
- shell
- wake
- rain
- swing
- rain
- clock
- True
- kite
- True
- True
- done
- False
- False
- bell
- night
- more
- well
- rain
- true
- free
- tree
- plane
- lock
- spring
- key
- train
- fight
- ring
- knock
- sell
- False
- clock
- thing
- True
- sell
- True
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