Sorting Activities Teaching Resources
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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10 More 10 Less Sorting Card Game
Engage your students and have them practise reading statements about values 10 more or 10 less, then and determining if the statement is accurate.
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Story Setting or Not? - Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between story settings and non-settings with this hands-on sorting activity.
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Making Mistakes – Sorting Activity
Help your students recognise different types of mistakes and discuss ways to learn from them with this SEL activity.
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Number Neighbourhood - Number Line Sequencing Cards
Print a set of colourful numbered houses to use for skip counting, ordering, and comparing numbers.
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Dictionary Skills - Guide Words Sorting Mats
Practise using guide words to help find words in a dictionary with this popcorn-themed sorting activity.
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Counting Syllables Sorting Activity - Penguins
Help these freezing cold syllable penguins escape the frigid water by sorting them onto the correct ice floes.
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Counting Syllables Sorting Activity - Birds
Save the baby birds by clapping and counting syllables in words with this syllable sorting activity.
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Which Letter? Sorting Activity - K or C
Practise identifying when to begin words with the letter K or the letter C with this hands-on sorting activity.
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Which Sound? Sorting Activity - The Letter G
Practise identifying the different sounds made by the letter G with this hands-on sorting activity.
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Positive and Negative Coping Skills – Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between positive and negative coping skills with these real-life scenario sorting cards.
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Things I Can and Cannot Control - Sorting Activity
Help students identify things in life they can and cannot control with this interactive sorting activity.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 4
A sorting activity to practice word families.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 2
A word family sorting activity.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 1
A sorting activity to practise identifying word families.
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Line and Feelings Sorting Activity - Year 3 to Year 6
A fun sorting activity for students to explore interpretation of line in visual art.
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Counting Cookies Sorting Activity
Practise counting to 10 with various representations with this cookie sorting activity.
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Counting Objects Sorting Numbers 6-10
Practise counting 6 – 10 objects with this colourful sorting activity.
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Acquired or Inherited? Trait Sort
Identify the differences between acquired and inherited traits with an engaging picture sort for years 5 and 6.
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Christmas Activity Printables - Types of Sentences Sort
Help your students identify the four types of sentences with a printable Christmas sorting activity on declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.
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Santa's Syllable Sort - Christmas Reading Centre
Practise breaking words into syllables with our Santa’s Syllable Christmas Literacy Centre.
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Singular or Plural? Christmas Noun Sort
Help your students determine if words are singular or plural with a fun Christmas-themed noun sorting centre.
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Divisible by 2 Sorting Activity
Explore numbers divisible by 2 with this fun snowboard-themed sorting activity.
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Odd and Even Properties Sorting Activity
Explore the properties of odd and even numbers when added, subtracted, divided and multiplied with this fun sorting activity
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Odd or Even Sorting Game (Coins)
Help your students reinforce their knowledge of odd and even numbers with this fun coin sorting activity.
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Monster Mash Grapheme Sorting Activity
Consolidate the concept of different graphemes with a printable consonant digraph activity.
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Estimating Quotients Sorting Activity
Guide your students to use rounding and compatible numbers when estimating quotients with this 24-card sorting activity.
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Odd or Even Number Popcorn Sorting Activity
Sort popcorn shaped numbers into either the odd popcorn bucket or the even popcorn bucket.
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Interior Angles of Shapes Sorting Activity
Play this sorting game when learning about the interior angles of common two-dimensional shapes.
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Pumpkin Patch Sight Word Activity
Build reading fluency and practise reading and spelling Dolch sight words with a pumpkin word-building activity.
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It's Autumn! Odd and Even Number Sort
Identify and sort 2- and 3-digit numbers into odd and even categories with an autumn-themed maths activity.
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Is It Cooperative? Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour with a sorting activity.
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Adding Within 100 - Bar Model Match-Up Activity
Practise using the bar model to add numbers within 100 with this match-up activity.