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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Narrative Elements Fairy Tale Sorting Activity
Explore narrative elements with this fairy tale sorting activity in the shape of a castle.
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The Gingerbread Man Story Sequencing Cards
Teach your students about retelling with this set of printable gingerbread man story sequencing cards.
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Persuasive Devices Sorting Activity
Explore persuasive devices with your students using this set of sorting cards.
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Jack and the Beanstalk Retelling Activity Cards
Teach your students about retelling with this set of sequencing cards for Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Music Instrument Game — Instrument Family Sort
Share this music instrument game with your students to assess their ability to sort instruments into their correct orchestra families.
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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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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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Uses of Materials Sorting Activity
Explore the materials objects are made of with a fun sorting activity for students.
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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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Counting Objects Sort Numbers 1-5
Practise counting 1 – 5 objects with this colorful sorting activity.
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Five Senses Sorting Activity
Explore the five senses with your little learners using a printable 5 Senses Science Sorting Activity.
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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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Producer, Consumer and Decomposer - Sorting Activity
Explore the roles and relationships of producers, consumers and decomposers in food chains with this hands-on sorting activity.
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Sustainability Activity - Caring for the Environment
Promote sustainable living with a sustainability sorting activity.
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Water Cycle Sort – Sorting Activity
Use knowledge of the steps in the water cycle to categorise examples with this sorting activity.
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Things I Can and Cannot Control - Sorting Activity
Help students identify things in life they can and cannot control with this interactive sorting activity.
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1-100 Number Chart - Sequencing Activity
Count by 1’s with your primary students by arranging number tiles 1-100.
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Old vs New Communication Devices - Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to identify old and new communication devices.
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Narrative Paragraphs Sequencing Activity
6 jumbled narrative paragraphs for students to sequence in the correct order.
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Life Cycle of a Fly Worksheet - Cut and Paste
Sequence the life cycle of a fly with a cut-and-paste Life Cycle of a Fly Worksheet.
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Ways Things Move - Science Sorting Activity
Introduce your F-1 students to the world of motion and scientific categorisation with a printable ‘How Things Move’ Sorting Activity.
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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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Fiction and Nonfiction Sorting Cards
Explore fiction and nonfiction book features with this sorting activity.
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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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Subject and Verb Agreement Activity – Sort the Sentences
Use this subject and verb agreement activity to help your students identify correct and incorrect subject-verb agreement.
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Sequencing Activities — Numbers 1-9 Sausage Dog
Use our sequencing activities like this sausage dog to help your students practise ordering the numbers 1 - 9.
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Fact and Opinion Sorting Activity
Use this fact and opinion sort to teach your students the difference between statements of fact and statements of opinion.
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Things That Stretch, Bend and Twist – Sorting Activity
Introduce your students to physical changes in materials with a stretch, bend and twist material sorting activity.
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Cartesian Coordinate Plane Activities — Four Quadrant Sort
Play Cartesian coordinate plane activities like this one to enhance student skills in identifying points in all four quadrants.
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Winter Survival Adaptations - Sorting Activity
Match the animals with the behavioural adaptation that helps them survive the winter in this printable animal adaptation sorting activity.
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Movement of Animals Sorting Activity
Classify animals based on their movement methods with a picture-sorting game.
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Day and Night Sorting Activity
Help your prep students understand and apply the concepts of day and night with this fun sorting activity.