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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Old vs New Communication Devices - Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to identify old and new communication devices.
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Persuasive Devices Sorting Activity
A hands-on sorting activity to use when introducing persuasive devices.
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2D Shape and 3D Object Sorting Activity
A sorting task to help students learn the difference between 2D shapes and 3D objects.
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Above and Below the Line Behaviours – Sorting Activity
Remind students of behaviours that are 'above the line,' 'below the line,' and 'bottom-line' with this sorting activity.
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Solids, Liquids and Gases – Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify solids, liquids and gases.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Make Fairy Bread
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Brush Your Teeth
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Analysing Situations – Sorting Activity
A sorting activity for students to practise analysing situations for their problems, consequences, and possible solutions.
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Common Nouns and Proper Nouns - Sorting Task
A sorting task to help students learn the difference between common nouns and proper nouns.
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Synonym Word Match Cards
A set of 60 word cards to assist with your students’ understanding of synonyms.
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Shape Sort Game
Use this Shape Sort Game to assist your students in identifying items that are shaped like squares, rectangles, circles and triangles.
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Yes or No? Phonics Sorting Activity
Use this phonics activity to help your students identify the different phonemes that make up a word.
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Consonant Blends Beehive Sorting Activity
Explore common consonant blends with a bee-themed sorting activity perfect for lower primary phonics lessons.
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Word Family Pumpkin Sort
Enhance your phonics lessons with a pumpkin-themed word family game.
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What's My Colour? - Matchup Activity
Use this resource in the classroom when learning and reinforcing colour identification.
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Big Problem or Little Problem? – Sorting Activity
A sorting activity for students to place situations in order from the littlest problem to the biggest problem.
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Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down Classroom Expectations Sort
Review appropriate classroom behaviours with this sorting activity.
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1-100 Number Chart - Sequencing Activity
Count by 1’s with your primary students by arranging number tiles 1-100.
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Forms of Government – Flashcards and Sorting Activity
A set of flashcards for students to review the various forms of government and sort them into categories.
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Main Idea or Supporting Detail? – Sorting Activity
An activity for students to determine which of 2 related facts is a main idea and which is a supporting detail.
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Selecting Units of Capacity - Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify containers that should be measured in millilitres and litres.
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Selecting Units of Mass – Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify objects that should be measured in grams, kilograms and tonnes.
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Selecting Units of Length - Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify lengths and distances that should be measured in millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres.
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Movement of Animals Sorting Activity
An animal movements sorting activity.
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Introduction to Hardware and Software Sorting Activity
Guide students in understanding the difference between hardware and software with this cut and sort activity.
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Identifying Colours - Sorting Activity
A fun sorting game for students to play when learning the primary and secondary colours.
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Transport Time Machine - Past and Present Transport Sorting Activity
A fun sorting game for students to identify past modes of transport from the present.
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Alien Grab - Toy Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity to identify toys from other everyday objects.
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How Long Does It Take? – Sorting Activity
An activity with 18 daily events that can be sorted depending on how long they take to occur.
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What's in a Colour? Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to explore interpretation of colour in visual art.
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Beginning Sounds Sorting Activity
Practise identifying beginning sounds of words by sorting this set of 24 picture cards.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 4
A sorting activity to practice word families.