Letter and Word Sort
This activity demonstrates a student’s knowledge of print, letter and word concepts. There are lots of ways you can use this resource in your classroom such as:
- Print and laminate these cards as a class display.
- Laminate the cards and use them as a sort and match activity during literacy rotations.
- Use this resource as a Concepts of Print assessment by asking students to identify or match a capital letter, lowercase letter, word and punctuation mark.
Encourage the class to add new words or punctuation to the display.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand how texts work on screen and in print, e.g. reading left to right, top to bottom.
Curriculum alignment
ENe-4A
old
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
ENE-PRINT-01
new
Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print
ENE-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Extensions
Encourage the class to add new words or punctuation to the display.