Flashcards for Teachers
So you know flashcards are invaluable for student learning, but you don't have time to make hundreds of educational flashcards for all the topics you're teaching this year? The teachers on the Teach Starter team have you covered with digital and printable flashcards that are curriculum-aligned, engaging, and fun too!
Designed to help students meet Common Core and state-level standards, the flashcards in this teaching resource collection cover grades pre-K through 6 and a variety of elementary subjects from math to ELA, science to social studies.
Oh, and here's where we mention that every resource is teacher-created, plus each flashcard has undergone a rigorous review by the teachers on the Teach Starter team so you can feel comfortable hitting print and handing them out for whole class, group, and individual student activities.
Are Flashcards Actually Useful?
They're an age-old teaching tool, so you might be asking: are flashcards still valuable in the elementary classroom? Well, yes!
The education research indicates flashcards are every bit as valuable for improving students' metacognition today as they were decades ago when you were sitting behind the student desk. Using flashcards in the classroom — or at home — allows students to practice their active recall and confidence-based repetition.
How to Use Flashcards in the Classroom
Whether you're printing out flashcards for students to use when they're learning sight words, new vocabulary words, place value, or any of the hundreds of thousands of concepts elementary students work through, flashcards can be used in a variety of ways to make learning fun. For example, many popular children's games can be adapted so they can be played with flashcards to help boost students' recall of learned concepts.
Here are a few tried and true ways to use flashcards our teacher team swears by!
- Play a curriculum-based version of the game Memory with flashcards. All the cards are turned upside down, and cards are flipped over two at a time to find matches.
- Play flashcard charades in small groups. Students pick from a pile of cards and act out what they see on the card for their peers to guess.
- Play Who Am I? In this group game, students make a headband out of construction paper that's been stapled to form a wring then staple or tape a flashcard to the center. Students then ask yes or no questions of their classmates in order to guess what is on the flashcard.
- Pronunciation Challenge. Teaching a foreign language this school year? Elementary schoolers can have fun practicing their pronunciation by pulling flashcards from a pile and sounding out the words!
- Plus Plan
Reading Comprehension Symbols Anchor Chart Pack
Use these Reading Comprehension Symbols posters to help students keep track of their comprehension during reading.
- Free Plan
Unit Fractions – Deck of Cards
Use this deck of 30 cards to practice different concepts with unit fractions.
- Plus Plan
Sentence Strip Activity Cards - Simple Sentence Starters
Encourage conversation and writing with our Printable Story Starter Sentence Strips Activity Cards.
- Plus Plan
Think Aloud Reading Strategy Flashcards
Enhance reading comprehension with these Think Aloud Reading Strategy Flashcards.
- Free Plan
Editable Vocab Card Template Pack
Use a Vocab Card Template to create vocabulary flashcards and teach your students how to study their new words.
- Free Plan
Properties of Materials Beanbag Toss Game - Describing Matter
Explore and describe the properties of materials with an exciting beanbag toss game.
- Plus Plan
Drama Vocabulary Flash Cards
A set of 16 flash cards to practice defining the different elements of a drama.
- Plus Plan
Syllable Flashcards
Develop phonological awareness in young children with our Syllable Flashcards.
- Plus Plan
Detective Base Word Game Cards
Explore vocabulary and word-building skills with this engaging base word game resource using Detective Base Word Game Cards.
- Plus Plan
Multiplication and Division Fact Families Triangle Flashcards
Use our multiplication and division fact families triangles to give your students practice with their basic facts up to 12.
- Plus Plan
Self Monitoring Strategies for Reading Comprehension Flashcards
Explore these Self Monitoring Strategies for Reading Comprehension flashcards to support students becoming confident readers.
- Free Plan
Kn, Ph and Wr Digraph Picture Cards - Free
Use our Digraph Picture Cards to introduce your students to kn, ph and wr digraph words.
- Plus Plan
Preposition Flashcards
Engage young learners with preposition flashcards that provide clear and engaging visual representations of common prepositions of place.
- Free Plan
Word Chains Activity
Explore phoneme manipulation with simple words using this word chain activity.
- Free Plan
Improper Fractions Activity Cards
Provide these improper fractions activity cards to your students to give them a variety of ways to practice converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.
- Plus Plan
Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Flashcards
Create a variety of grammar activities with printable noun, verb and adjective flashcards.
- Plus Plan
Ch Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'ch' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
- Plus Plan
Sh Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'sh' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
- Plus Plan
Missing Addend to 10 Flashcards
Practice all the ways to make ten with this set of flashcards.
- Free Plan
Th Word List and Digraph Flashcards
Practice reading and spelling words with the Digraph TH with a list of 50 words and accompanying illustrated flash cards.
- Plus Plan
Double Consonant Rule - Word Building Cards
Practice spelling and building words that need double consonants when adding suffixes with a word-building center.
- Plus Plan
Moving Mathematics Activity - Fact Family Triangles
A fun mathematics activity that explores the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction.
- Plus Plan
Antonym Flashcards
Use flashcards to assist with your students' understanding of antonyms.
- Plus Plan
Base-10 Flashcards - Numbers 1–120
Boost number sense with these flashcards that help students identify numbers up to 120 using visual representations of base ten blocks.
- Plus Plan
Literary Genre Flash Cards
Practice identifying the different literary genres and their matching definitions with this set of 16 flash cards.
- Plus Plan
Phoneme Segmentation Flashcards - Tricky Words
A set of 30 tricky word phoneme segmentation flashcards.
- Plus Plan
Dolch Sight Word Flash Cards for Third Grade
Practice the Dolch 3rd grade sight word list in the classroom with these fun printable flash cards. We've also included teacher tips for getting the most out of these cards!
- Free Plan
0-9 Digit Cards
A set of 0-9 digit cards to be used for numeracy games in the classroom.
- Plus Plan
Classroom Schedule Cards
Keep your students on track by choosing from 60 editable schedule cards to display in your classroom.
- Plus Plan
Yoga Poses for Kids - Task Cards
16 kid friendly yoga poses to display and use in the classroom for daily gross motor and fitness activities.
- Plus Plan
Presentation Skills Feedback and Reaction Cards for Students
Support your students in building confidence and communication skills with this Presentation Skills Feedback resource.
- Plus Plan
Fossil Pictures - Flashcards
Use fossil pictures in the classroom to help your students observe, classify, and understand more about the fossil record and different types of fossils.