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 rhymes with “rain”? (a) smell (b) chain (c) wing (d) write
- 2.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) shock (b) sea (c) white (d) bee
- 3.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) main (b) chain (c) train (d) spring
- 4.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lake (b) smell (c) shell (d) sell
- 5.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) three (b) shake (c) key (d) free
- 6.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) spell (b) white (c) plane (d) kite
- 7.🎵 Why do rhymes help memory? (a) they are longer (b) sound patterns stick (c) they need no practice (d) they are always true
- 8.True or false: “swing” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🎵 Which word rhymes with “rain”? (a) smell (b) free (c) shock (d) cane
- 10.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) tell (b) spell (c) fight (d) smell
- 11.🎵 A memory rhyme works best when you… (a) change it each day (b) say it aloud often (c) read it once silently (d) never say it
- 12.🎵 Which word rhymes with “clock”? (a) lane (b) block (c) white (d) shake
- 13.True or false: “knee” rhymes with “tree”. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “Eight planets spin around the Sun; Mercury is the closest ___.” (a) star (b) world (c) one (d) planet
- 15.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) plane (b) fun (c) spring (d) rock
- 16.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) key (b) light (c) knee (d) sea
- 17.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) bee (b) tea (c) three (d) well
- 18.🎵 Which word does “ring” rhyme with? (a) night (b) clock (c) bell (d) king
- 19.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) lake (b) run (c) wake (d) bake
- 20.🎵 Which word does “cane” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) rain (c) sun (d) bell
- 21.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “The river runs down to the sea, from mountains high and wild and ___.” (a) free (b) long (c) cold (d) fast
- 22.🎵 Which word rhymes with “bell”? (a) swing (b) sell (c) wing (d) fun
- 23.🎵 Which word rhymes with “king”? (a) done (b) thing (c) lane (d) tea
- 24.True or false: “spell” rhymes with “cake”. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🎵 Which word does “tea” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) tree (c) bell (d) king
- 26.🎵 Which word does “fight” rhyme with? (a) tree (b) night (c) king (d) sun
- 27.🎵 Which word does “shake” rhyme with? (a) rain (b) cake (c) bell (d) sun
- 28.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) run (b) ton (c) fun (d) tell
- 29.🎵 Which word does not rhyme with the other three? (a) string (b) ring (c) spring (d) key
- 30.🎵 Which word does “thing” rhyme with? (a) sun (b) tree (c) king (d) clock
- 31.🎵 Which word rhymes with “cake”? (a) spring (b) white (c) tea (d) lake
- 32.🎵 Which word does “knock” rhyme with? (a) bell (b) sun (c) rain (d) clock
- 33.🎵 Which word does “lake” rhyme with? (a) king (b) clock (c) cake (d) rain
- 34.🎵 Which word does “lane” rhyme with? (a) cake (b) tree (c) bell (d) rain
- 35.🎵 Finish the memory rhyme: “June, April, September, November too — thirty days each, and that is ___.” (a) clear (b) known (c) right (d) true
- 36.True or false: “wake” rhymes with “rain”. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: “light” rhymes with “night”. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🎵 Which word rhymes with “sun”? (a) knee (b) smell (c) won (d) kite
- 39.🎵 Which word rhymes with “night”? (a) knock (b) bright (c) one (d) tea
- 40.True or false: “sell” rhymes with “bell”. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- chain
- shock
- spring
- lake
- shake
- plane
- sound patterns stick
- False
- cane
- fight
- say it aloud often
- block
- True
- one
- spring
- light
- well
- king
- run
- rain
- free
- sell
- thing
- False
- tree
- night
- cake
- tell
- key
- king
- lake
- clock
- cake
- rain
- true
- False
- True
- won
- bright
- True
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