Sorting Activities for Teachers
This collection of sorting activities covers a wide range of Numeracy, Literacy, Science, Social Studies, Geography, History, Health, Physical Education, Technology and The Arts topics. These sorting activities help consolidate your students' understanding by encouraging them to identify, sort and group different items into alike categories. This collection of sorting activities can be used for whole class, group or independent tasks.
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Probability of Everyday Events Sort
Share this probability of everyday events sort with your students to give them hands on practice identifying the likelihood of common events.
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Fraction Decimal Percent Activity
Download this fraction decimal percent activity to give your students hands-on practice matching fraction, decimal and percent equivalents.
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Santa's Syllable Sort - Christmas Reading Centre
Practise breaking words into syllables with our Santa’s Syllable Christmas Literacy Centre.
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Uses of Materials Sorting Activity
Explore the materials objects are made of with a fun sorting activity for students.
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Natural vs. Man-Made Features - Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify the natural and human features of environments.
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Comparing Capacity Year 1 and Foundation Activity
Share this comparing capacity year 1 and foundation activity with your students to introduce them to early measurement concepts.
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Positional Language Hands-On Activity Mats
Engage students with positional language using these fun hands-on activity mats, where they follow instructions to place pictures within five different scenes.
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Making Predictions With Pictures Prompt Cards
Encourage early reading comprehension by using Making Predictions with Pictures Prompt Cards to help students develop critical thinking and inference skills through visual storytelling
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Christmas Activity Printables - Types of Sentences Sort
Help your students identify the four types of sentences with a printable Christmas sorting activity on declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.
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Living & Non-Living Things - Picture Sort
Sort biotic vs. abiotic things and discuss their characteristics with a hands-on living vs. nonliving picture sort.
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Ordering Large Numbers Sorting Activity
Practise ordering large numbers with this easy-to-prepare sorting activity.
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Alliteration Sorting by Beginning Sound Activity
Explore beginning sounds and alliteration with this engaging and age-appropriate picture sort activity, perfect for your phonics and early literacy lessons.
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Expanded Noun Groups Sorting Activity
Teach expanded noun groups with this hands-on sorting activity where students decide whether the order of adjectives in each noun group is correct or incorrect.
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Letter Sound Sort - Gingerbread Man Activity
Have some sweet Christmas reading fun with this gingerbread man activity to explore letters and sounds.
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Facial Expressions and Gestures Sorting Activity
The Facial Expressions and Gestures Activity is the perfect hands-on resource to help students recognise and understand the many ways we communicate without words.
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Christmas Nouns Sorting Game - Singular & Plural
Help your students determine if words are singular or plural with a fun Christmas nouns sorting activity.
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Sort It Out! - Types of Sentences Practice Activity
Practise sorting and matching examples of the four types of sentences (command, statement, question, exclamation) with a Year 1 Types of Sentences Practice Game.
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Rounding Large Numbers Worksheet Set
Share this rounding large numbers worksheet set with your students so they can cut-and-paste their way to understanding rounding.
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Modal Language Sorting Activity
Explore examples of modal language with your students using this set of 24 sorting cards perfect for your persuasive writing unit.
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When Does It Happen? – Sorting Activity
Identify activities that happen in the morning, afternoon, and at night with a Time of Day Sorting activity for Foundations students.
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Persuasive Devices Sorting Activity
Explore persuasive devices with your students using this set of sorting cards.
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Rules Around Us - Sorting Activity
Identify rules at home, in school and around the community with a sorting activity.
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Grouping Plants and Animals – Sorting Activity (F-1)
Sort and group plants and animals based on a variety of characteristics with a Plants And Animals Sorting Activity Pack.
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Line and Feelings Sorting Activity - Year 3 to Year 6
A fun sorting activity for students to explore interpretation of line in visual art.
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Classifying Angles – Sorting Activity
Help students recognise different types of angles in everyday life with this hands-on sorting activity.
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Let's Sort It! — 2D Shapes and 3D Objects Sorting Activity for Year 2
Play this sorting game when learning about the properties of 2D shapes and 3D objects.
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Types of Assertions Sorting Activity
Explore types of assertions with this interactive sorting activity that helps students distinguish between bare, generalised and supported assertions.
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Sentence Building Cards and Mat
Use these Sentence Building Cards with Mat to explore the main features of a simple sentence with your Prep students.
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Sort It Out! Common and Proper Nouns Game
Use common and proper nouns games to help your students practise identifying examples of different types of nouns.
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Properties of Materials Sorting Game
Teach your little learners about the basic properties of materials with an engaging sorting activity.
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Past, Present, and Future Verb Tense Sentence Sort
Identify sentences written in past, present, and future tense with task cards designed for primary students.
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Rhetorical Questions Sorting Activity
Explore rhetorical question examples with your students using this set of 28 sorting cards perfect for literacy groups