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: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) true (b) clear (c) known (d) right
- 2.🎵 Which word does “shock” rhyme with? (a) king (b) clock (c) night (d) cake
- 3.🎵 Which word does “tea” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) sun (d) bell
- 4.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) sound patterns stick (b) they are always true (c) they are longer (d) they need no practice
- 5.True or false: “bite” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🎵 Which word does “wing” rhyme with? (a) clock (b) sun (c) cake (d) king
- 7.True or false: “won” rhymes with “bell”. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Seven eights are fifty-six, learn it fast with little ___.” (a) songs (b) steps (c) tricks (d) games
- 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) tell (b) swing (c) make (d) white
- 10.True or false: “lake” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) well (b) done (c) sing (d) white
- 12.True or false: “fun” rhymes with “sun”. (a) True (b) False
- 13.True or false: “train” rhymes with “rain”. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) rain (c) king (d) bell
- 15.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Nine nines are eighty-one, now this table’s nearly ___.” (a) learnt (b) ended (c) done (d) over
- 16.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) three (b) bake (c) plane (d) shock
- 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) make (b) wing (c) wake (d) lake
- 18.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) shake (b) write (c) key (d) wing
- 19.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) won (b) ton (c) bun (d) rake
- 20.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) main (b) spring (c) rake (d) fight
- 21.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rake (b) shake (c) make (d) shell
- 22.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) long (b) free (c) cold (d) fast
- 23.🎵 Which word does “make” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) clock (c) sun (d) bell
- 24.🎵 What makes a memory rhyme stick even more? (a) writing it tiny (b) a beat or a tune (c) no rhythm at all (d) saying it once quietly
- 25.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) won (b) rock (c) run (d) ton
- 26.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Twelve twelves make one forty-four, learn it once and then once ___.” (a) again (b) more (c) fast (d) twice
- 27.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) lake (c) well (d) spell
- 28.🎵 Which word does “knock” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) cake (c) king (d) clock
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rake (b) shake (c) snake (d) key
- 30.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) sell (b) well (c) fight (d) shell
- 31.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) fight (b) write (c) white (d) sell
- 32.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) swing (b) well (c) bee (d) write
- 33.True or false: “make” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 34.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) snake (b) chain (c) brain (d) main
- 35.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) write (b) fight (c) bite (d) plane
- 36.🎵 Which word does “tell” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) sun (c) bell (d) king
- 37.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) rock (b) kite (c) lock (d) sock
- 38.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) planet (b) one (c) star (d) world
- 39.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) wake (b) lake (c) three (d) rake
- 40.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Water is H-two-O, the formula you need to ___.” (a) know (b) learn (c) say (d) write
Answer key
- true
- clock
- tree
- sound patterns stick
- False
- king
- False
- tricks
- tell
- True
- sing
- True
- True
- king
- done
- shock
- wing
- wing
- rake
- main
- shell
- free
- cake
- a beat or a tune
- rock
- more
- lake
- clock
- key
- fight
- sell
- write
- True
- snake
- plane
- bell
- kite
- one
- three
- know
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