Circle the family, a printable sorting worksheet for the youngest

A grid of twelve or twenty pictures, and one instruction: “Circle every picture of the family: animals”. The child looks for the animals, circles them, and leaves the odd ones out. The model at the top recalls the family with its picture and its name. A first sorting, from age 3.

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Worksheet where every picture of a family is to be circled in a grid — First page, made in Lexikit with twelve animals, the odd ones out borrowed from the lexicon.

In 3 steps

Add your words: farm animals, for example. Lexikit finds the odd ones out in your other resources or in the lexicon.
Set the worksheet: the family to circle, a few odd ones out or half, the model at the top.
Print: name, date and illustrated instruction are already at the top, the answer key at the end.

What you can set

Family to circle: automatic, or chosen among those of your words
Odd ones out: a few, or half of the pictures
Model at the top: the picture and the name of the family, or nothing
Answer key page for the adult, size of the worksheet, name and date

Ways to use it

A first sorting at age 3, with nothing to cut or stick
Naming the odd ones out and saying why they do not belong
In speech therapy, working on one category at a time

Frequently asked questions

My list only has animals: where do the odd ones out come from?

From your other resources first, then from the words of the lexicon. The information line names them: “Added from the lexicon: apple, bike”. In the “Families” section, you choose where Lexikit takes them, or keep to your own words.

Your turn

Open Lexikit, write your words, choose a resource: all that is left is to print. Free, no account, and your words stay on your device.