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!
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Mental Math – Subtraction Flashcards
Build up your students' mental math skills with a set of 36 subtraction flashcards using one- and two-digit numbers.
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Plants - Illustrated Word Wall
Discover the world of plant-related vocabulary with an illustrated plant word wall display.
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200-299 Number And Word Flashcards – Circles
Use these flashcards when learning about numbers and words.
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Brain Break Movement Cards - Mother's Day Theme
Celebrate Mother’s Day with these cute animal movement cards, perfect for a brain break.
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Equivalent Fractions – Deck of Cards
Encourage healthy competition between your students by using this set of 30 equivalent fraction cards to play a variety of math games.
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Antonym Flashcards
Use flashcards to assist with your students' understanding of antonyms.
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Basketball Vocabulary - Illustrated Word Wall
Learn about basketball-related words with an illustrated word wall for elementary grades.
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Hey Diddle Diddle - Sequencing Cards
Sequence the events in “Hey Diddle Diddle” with a set of retelling pocket chart cards.
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Synonym Word Match Cards
Match pairs of synonyms with a set of printable synonym flash cards.
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Emotions Charts - Synonym Flashcards
Give your students the words and synonyms they need to express emotions and enhance their writing.
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Humpty Dumpty Pocket Chart Retell Cards
Read and retell the story within the Humpty Dumpty tale with a set of retelling pocket chart cards.
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Phoneme Segmentation Fluency Strips
Develop students’ ability to segment and blend phonemes with this comprehensive set of phoneme segmentation fluency strips.
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Government Types – Fact Cards and Sorting Activity
Review the different forms of government and sort them into different categories with this sorting activity.
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"Ow" Words - Illustrated Cards
Practice reading words with OW using this set of word cards.
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Organizational Patterns – Sorting Activity
A set of flashcards and paragraphs to use as a sorting activity.
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Word Families Cards – Short Vowel O
A set of word family cards focusing on the short vowel 'o'.
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Basic Fact Cards
A set of 72 basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fact cards.
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Representations of Numbers 11-20 Flashcards
A set of flashcards showing various representations of numbers from 11-20.
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ASL Fingerspelling Alphabet Flashcards
A set of 26 flashcards to show how to represent the letters of the alphabet when fingerspelling in ASL (American Sign Language).
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Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Flashcards
A set of 60 flashcards covering nouns, verbs, and adjectives as well as 3 colorful sorting pockets to create a colorful display.
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Places – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use when teaching the German terms for various places.
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Body – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use in the classroom when teaching the German terms for various parts of the body.
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The – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use in the classroom when teaching 'the' in German.
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Descriptive Words – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use in the classroom when teaching German terms for descriptive language.
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Virtual Meeting Icons
A set of flashcards and stickers to use when teaching virtual skills to students.
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Literary Genre Flash Cards
Practice identifying the different literary genres and their matching definitions with this set of 16 flash cards.
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Phoneme Segmentation Flashcards - Tricky Words
A set of 30 tricky word phoneme segmentation flashcards.
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Phoneme Segmentation Flashcards – Set 2
A set of over 180 decodable phoneme segmentation flashcards.
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Drinks – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use when teaching the German terms for various drinks.
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Clothes – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use in the classroom when teaching German terms for common articles of clothing.
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Days of the Week – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use in the classroom when teaching German terms for the days of the week.
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Months – German Language Flashcards
A set of flashcards to use in the classroom when teaching German terms for months.