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.
- Plus Plan
Dictionary Skills - Guide Words Sorting Mats
Practise using guide words to help find words in a dictionary with this popcorn-themed sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Seasons of the Year Sorting Activity
Year 1 students can identify proper clothing, activities and objects for different types of weather with this four seasons activity.
- Plus Plan
Numerical Expressions Sort
Solve and sort numerical expressions according to different categories with this sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Consonant Blends Sorting Activity - Apple Barrels
Supplement your phonics lessons with a consonant blend sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Beginning Sounds Sorting Activity
Practise identifying beginning sounds of words by sorting this set of 24 picture cards.
- Plus Plan
Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 3
A sorting activity using word families.
- Plus Plan
Push and Pull Sorting Activity
Use these push and pull sorting cards as a hands-on activity during your science lessons on forces.
- Plus Plan
Word Family Sorting Cards
A set of 36 sorting cards to reinforce word families and rhyming with your students.
- Free Plan
Federation Sorting Activity
A hands-on sorting activity to use when introducing the arguments around Australian Federation.
- Plus Plan
Objects in the Sky – Sorting Activity
Determine if statements about different objects in the sky are true or false with this sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Comparing Collections Sorting Activity
Support students in comparing quantities by providing an easy, hands‑on activity that lets them sort items and decide if they can be shared evenly.
- Plus Plan
Complete Sentence vs Fragment Sentence Sort
Make sentence structure lessons engaging and hands-on with this playful Complete Sentence vs Fragment sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Story Setting or Not? - Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between story settings and non-settings with this hands-on sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Does It Lay Eggs? Classifying Animals Game
Use our Does It Lay Eggs? Classifying Animals Game to identify examples of oviparous and viviparous animals.
- Plus Plan
Types of Assertions Sorting Activity
Explore types of assertions with this interactive sorting activity that helps students distinguish between bare, generalised and supported assertions.
- Plus Plan
Letter Sound Sort - Gingerbread Man Activity
Have some sweet Christmas reading fun with this gingerbread man activity to explore letters and sounds.
- Plus Plan
Likes and Dislikes Sorting Activity
Encourage students to explore different ways to express likes and dislikes with this sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Formal vs Informal Language Sorting Activity
Engage students in identifying formal vs informal language with this sorting activity that helps build understanding through real-world sentence examples.
- Plus Plan
Real and Make-Believe Picture Sort
Explore real vs make believe pictures with this sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
Emoji Sentence Sorting Activity (Year 1-2)
Teach your students about statement, command, exclamation, and question sentences with our Emoji Sentence sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Identifying Colours Game
Explore colours with your students using this fun and engaging identifying colours game.
- Plus Plan
Scientific Investigation Scenarios - Sorting Activity
Analyse scientific investigation scenarios to determine which stage in the scientific method is being described with a printable Scientific Method Sorting Activity.
- Plus Plan
What is Made of Rock? Sorting Activity
Discover ways people use rocks to produce everyday objects with an engaging sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
Yes or No? Phonics Sorting Activity
Use this phonics activity to help your students identify the different phonemes that make up a word.
- Plus Plan
Counting Cookies Sorting Activity
Practise counting to 10 with various representations with this cookie sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Natural and Human Made Heat Sources Sort
Explore the different man-made and natural heat sources with this sorting activity.
- Plus Plan
Five Senses Sorting Activity
Explore the five senses with your little learners using a printable 5 Senses Science Sorting Activity.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
Acquired or Inherited? Trait Sort
Identify the differences between acquired and inherited traits with an engaging picture sort for years 5 and 6.
- Plus Plan
Natural and Human Made Heat Sources Sort
Explore the different man-made and natural heat sources with this sorting activity.