Defining Categories For Words Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: L.1.5.B

Core Standard

Sorting words is a difficult concept for students at an early age. This is because students at this level are a totally blank slate. They will find many features of any set of objects or words. The most important thing to remind students is of the everyday use of these items or words. The worksheets you will find below push students to add value to a group of words and make a distinction between them.

Defining Categories Worksheets To Print:

Attributes of People – We look at the people you might run into everyday: firemen, veterinarian, students, etc.

Making Categories – We prompt you to determine your own categories.

Tough Words – The words in here are emotion based words.

Living On The Farm – Make categories for all the things on a farm.

Fill In The Blanks – This is somewhat of a prompted vocabulary activity for practice.

Tell Us More... – Describe the attributes of each fruit or veggie below and then fill in the blanks in the questions that follow.

Circles and Rectangles – We make categories so that we can understand how words go together better. Follow the directions to categorize the following words.

Think It Through – What doesn't belong? Place a check next to the word that shouldn't be part of the group.

Put on Your Thinking Cap – Put on your thinking caps! It's time for you to fill out the graph with questions and answers. We filled out the first one to help you along.

What Is It? Activity – Now create your own and ask a parent or friend to try to guess "What is It" based on your questions and answers.

Which Animal Is It? – Look at the chart below and answer the questions for each "What is It?" The first one has been done for you.

Monster Word Bank – Using the word bank, fill in the blanks in each sentence.

What Am I? – For each word below, write three attributes (something about the item). The first one has been done for you.

Three Attributes Of... – For each word below, write three attributes (something about the item). The first one has been done for you.

Animals at the Zoo – List ten animals that you would find at the zoo with at least one attribute per animal.

When You Have A Bunch of Words How Do You Determine Categories That They Can Be Group Into?


There are often times when teachers give young students a bunch of words where they have to utilize their thinking abilities to sort them into categories. Now, this might seem like an easy task, but for young students it is some heck of a task. It can get confusing as well as there are tons of categories that can be used for sorting words. However, here are some tips that you can use to determine the categories to sort the words.


Carefully take a look at all the words


The number one step for determining the category to sort words is to look at all the words carefully. You might have a lot of words given to you, but that should not stop you from carefully analyzing all the words. It will save your time from the possible mistakes that you can make due to thoughtless categorization.


Examine each word and think about what it is. Think about how it sounds. Think about the senses that it alerts while reading. Think of everything you can about this word and then move toward the next one.


Look for connections


This is the most important step of all. During this step, you have to look for connections between the words. You have given enough time for thoughtful analysis of each word. Now think about the similarities between them. It may be that some of the words belong to a similar field. For example, they may be food items or they might end with the same group of words.


Make Categories


After you have made the connections, assemble them together under the same label. That label will be the category.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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