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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Weather Vocabulary Cards
Use this set of 12 weather vocabulary cards to explore words that cover terms such as sunny, humid, overcast, and foggy.
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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.
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Medial L Words - List & Flashcards
Practice reading and articulating Medial L words with a list of 50 words and accompanying illustrated flash cards.
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Unit Fractions – Deck of Cards
Use this deck of 30 cards to practice different concepts with unit fractions.
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Dolch Sight Word Flash Cards
Practice the first 100 Dolch Sight Words with a deck of sight word flash cards.
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Call and Response - Attention-Grabbing Phrase Cards
Display and use a variety of call and response phrases in your classroom with our printable attention-getter cards.
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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.
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Ar Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'ar' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
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0-9 Digit Cards
A set of 0-9 digit cards to be used for numeracy games in the classroom.
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Phoneme Segmentation Flashcard Activity Set
Print this phoneme segmentation activity set stocked with 100+ printable flashcards for your classroom reading centers!
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Coding Robot Direction Cards
A selection of coding robot directional cards.
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Improper Fractions Cards
A set of 30 cards displaying various improper fractions.
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Veterans Day Vocabulary Cards and Writing Center
Help your kindergartners and first graders understand the meaning of Veterans Day with a Veterans Day Write the Room display.
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Double Consonant Rule - Word Building Cards
Practice spelling and building words that need double consonants when adding suffixes with a word-building center.
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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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Basketball Vocabulary - Illustrated Word Wall
Learn about basketball-related words with an illustrated word wall for elementary grades.
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Synonyms- Printable Flashcards
Build vocabulary skills with individual Synonym anchor chart flash cards.
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CVC Word Chain Sequencing Cards
Practice building word chains involving CVC words with these word chain sequencing 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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Basic Fact Cards
A set of 72 basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fact cards.
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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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Phoneme Segmentation Flashcards – Set 2
A set of over 180 decodable phoneme segmentation flashcards.
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Drama Vocabulary Flash Cards
A set of 16 flash cards to practice defining the different elements of a drama.
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Fry Sight Words Flash Cards
A set of flash cards for the first 100 Fry Sight Words.
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Dewey Decimal Classes Flashcards
Explore the Dewey Decimal Classes with this set of printable flashcards for the classroom or school library.
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Sl Blend Flashcards
Twelve flashcards showing sl blend words and pictures.
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Pl Blend Flashcards
Twelve flashcards showing pl blend words and pictures.
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Gl Blend Flashcards
Nine flashcards showing gl blend words and pictures.
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Fl Blend Flashcards
Thirteen flashcards showing fl blend words and pictures.
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Cl Blend Flashcards
Fourteen flashcards showing cl blend words and pictures.
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Bl Blend Flashcards
Sixteen flashcards showing bl blend words and pictures.
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Br Blend Flashcards
Twenty-six flashcards showing br blend words and pictures.