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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Subitising Aquarium – Sorting Activity
Practise recognising the quantity of a small group of objects with this subitising sorting activity.
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Positive and Negative Coping Skills – Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between positive and negative coping skills with these real-life scenario sorting cards.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 4
A sorting activity to practice word families.
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Jobs by Gender Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify gender-specific and gender-neutral job titles.
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Alien Grab - Toy Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity to identify toys from other everyday objects.
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Food Choices Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students recognise healthy and unhealthy foods.
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Fact File Sorting Activity
Use this fact sorting activity to teach your students about informative writing.
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Equivalent Fractions - Cookie Jar Sorting Activity
Consolidate your students' understanding of equivalent fractions with this group sorting activity.
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'Is It An Investigable Question?’ Sorting Activity
Help students determine examples of investigable science questions with our ‘Is It An Investigable Question’ sorting activity.
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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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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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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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Simple Machines Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity to use in the classroom when learning about simple machines and how they work.
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Real and Make-Believe Picture Sort
Explore real vs make believe pictures with this sorting activity.
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Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Games — Sorting Activity
Play parallel and perpendicular lines games in your classroom to give students practice sorting lines into intersecting, parallel, or perpendicular line categories.
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Using Commas in a List Sorting Activity
Practise using commas in a list using a hands-on sentence sorting activity.
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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.
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What is Made of Rock? Sorting Activity
Discover ways people use rocks to produce everyday objects with an engaging sorting activity.
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Possessive Pronouns Sorting Activity
Use this sorting activity in your grammar lessons to teach your students about possessive pronouns.
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Understanding Mass True or False Sorting Activity
Practise the understanding of mass as a measurement with this printable mass sorting activity.
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Counting Cookies Sorting Activity
Practise counting to 10 with various representations with this cookie sorting activity.
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Natural and Human Made Heat Sources Sort
Explore the different man-made and natural heat sources with this sorting activity.
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Unit Fraction Fairy Bread Matching Activity
Sort and match fairy bread model cards to the corresponding unit fraction cards.
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Unit Fraction Sort
Explore different images of unit fractions with your students in this unit fraction sorting activity with fraction word and fraction heading cards.
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Vowel Teams Sorting Activity (OA, OW and OE)
Decode words with the OA, OW and OE vowel teams using 18 picture cards with sorting mats.
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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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Santa's Syllable Sort - Christmas Reading Centre
Practise breaking words into syllables with our Santa’s Syllable Christmas Literacy Centre.
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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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Vowel Teams Sorting Activity (EE, EA and EY)
Decode words with the EE, EA and EY vowel teams using 18 picture cards with sorting mats.
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Analysing Situations Sorting Activity
Use this sorting activity with your students to practise analysing situations for their problems, consequences and possible solutions.
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Divisible by 2 Sorting Activity
Explore numbers divisible by 2 with this fun snowboard-themed sorting activity.
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Managing Stress Coping Strategies Puzzle Match
Set your students up for success against stress with this calming puzzle activity where they will explore actionable strategies to manage stress!