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Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on finishing a line of verse by its rhyme, repeated words or first sounds, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.4. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines

RL.2.4

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Finish each line with a word from the box.

1.Keep the same first sound: "Five fat frogs ___ on a log."

Choose: flopped · sat · slept

2.Choose the rhyme: "One, two, buckle my shoe; / three, four, knock at the ___."

Choose: door · gate · house

3.Keep the same first sound: "Many mice ___ in the meadow."

Choose: munch · eat · nibble

4.Keep the same first sound: "Big brown bears ___ in the bushes."

Choose: bounce · sleep · hide

5.Choose the rhyme: "Run, run, as fast as you can! / You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread ___!"

Choose: Man · Boy · Cake

6.Choose the rhyme: "I found a shell upon the sand / and held it gently in my ___."

Choose: hand · palm · fingers

7.Choose the rhyme: "Drip, drop, drip, drop, / the rain will never ___."

Choose: stop · end · finish

8.Choose the rhyme: "The rain goes tap upon the shed, / and drips upon the flower ___."

Choose: bed · pot · ground

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Answer key — Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.flopped
  2. 2.door
  3. 3.munch
  4. 4.bounce
  5. 5.Man
  6. 6.hand
  7. 7.stop
  8. 8.bed

More practice for RL.2.4

Notice rhyme, repeated lines and beat, and say what they add.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.