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

Choose: still · calm · quiet

2.Choose the rhyme: "The cat sat on the garden wall / and watched the leaves begin to ___."

Choose: fall · drop · blow

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

Choose: stop · end · finish

4.Keep the same first sound: "Six slippery snails ___ slowly."

Choose: slid · moved · crept

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

Choose: flopped · sat · slept

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

Choose: bounce · sleep · hide

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

Choose: bed · pot · ground

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

Choose: Man · Boy · Cake

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Answer key — Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines

Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.still
  2. 2.fall
  3. 3.stop
  4. 4.slid
  5. 5.flopped
  6. 6.bounce
  7. 7.bed
  8. 8.Man

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.