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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.Use the repeated words: "Tick-tock, tick-tock, / goes the big old clock. / ___, tick-tock, / it never stops."

Choose: Tick-tock · Ding-dong · Bang-bang

2.Choose the rhyme: "The wind blew hard across the hill, / and then at last the air was ___."

Choose: still · calm · quiet

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

Choose: stop · end · finish

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

Choose: door · gate · house

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: "A little fish swam in the sea, / as happy as a fish could ___."

Choose: be · swim · feel

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

Choose: bed · pot · ground

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

Choose: munch · eat · nibble

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Answer key — Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Tick-tock
  2. 2.still
  3. 3.stop
  4. 4.door
  5. 5.Man
  6. 6.be
  7. 7.bed
  8. 8.munch

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.