Find the odd one out: circle the category or cross out the odd ones out, printable worksheet

A grid of pictures, and the instruction of your choice: “Circle the pictures that go with “Animals””, or “Cross out the pictures that don't go with “Animals””. You choose the category among those of your words, then you add the odd ones out yourself by searching the lexicon: an apple, a bicycle, a chair. Nothing is drawn at random. At the top, the category is shown with its picture and its name. Circling first, from age 3, crossing out later: the same grid, the same odd ones out.

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Worksheet where every picture of a category is to be circled in a grid — First page, made in Lexikit with twelve animals, an apple, a bicycle and a chair.

In 3 steps

Add your words: farm animals, for example.
Add the odd ones out: in the left column, search for an apple, a bicycle, a chair. There are none until you add some.
Choose the exercise and print: circle the category or cross out the odd ones out. The illustrated instruction is already at the top, the answer key at the end or on the back if you want it.

What you can set

Exercise: circle the pictures of the category, or cross out the odd ones out
Category of the worksheet: chosen among those of your words
Odd ones out: the ones you add, of another category
The category shown at the top of the worksheet, its picture and its name
Answer key at the end or on the back, illustrated instruction
On screen: to circle, the grid full screen, the child touches every picture of the category. To cross out, one row of pictures at a time, the child touches the odd one out

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 are not in the category, out loud
In speech therapy, working on one category at a time

Frequently asked questions

My list only has animals: where are the odd ones out?

You add them yourself. In the left column, search for a word, an apple or a bicycle, and click it. The search offers neither the words of your list nor those of the worksheet's category.

Circle or cross out?

It is the same worksheet. In “Exercise”, choose “Circle the category” or “Cross out the odd ones out”. The grid and the odd ones out stay the same, only the instruction and the answer key change.

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.