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Activities & Worksheets for Categories

Help students group pictures and words into categories. The packet includes sorting cards, matching, odd-one-out questions, and activities for naming categories and adding examples.
Grades
Pre-K–2
Pages
38
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Sep 25, 2021

Subject
ELA, Language Development, Special Education Needs (SEN)
Topic
Category sorting, Odd one out
Resource types
Worksheets
Preparation
Print ready
Standards
L.K.5

Product description

From the author

This material contains multiple activities and worksheets to help your students learn how to categorize.

This product contains:

- Category Sorting

- Which Does Not Belong?

- Category Matching

- Name the Category!

- Coloring Categories

- Name It!

I hope you enjoy the activity!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Sort items by shared semantic features

  • Name the category represented by a group

  • Generate additional members of a familiar category

Teaching tips

  • Introduce the cut-apart cards before moving to written category pages.

  • Ask learners to explain the shared feature and not only state the category name.

Skills covered

  • Semantic categorization

  • Odd-one-out reasoning

  • Expressive vocabulary

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Does the packet include reusable sorting materials?

It includes picture and category cards with printing, laminating and cutting directions.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • L.K.5

Core concepts

  • Categories

  • Sorting and matching

  • Category naming

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