Flashcards for Teachers
So you know flashcards are invaluable for student learning, but you don't have time to make hundreds of educational flashcards for all the topics you're teaching this year? The teachers on the Teach Starter team have you covered with digital and printable flashcards that are curriculum-aligned, engaging, and fun too!
Designed to help students meet Common Core and state-level standards, the flashcards in this teaching resource collection cover grades pre-K through 6 and a variety of elementary subjects from math to ELA, science to social studies.
Oh, and here's where we mention that every resource is teacher-created, plus each flashcard has undergone a rigorous review by the teachers on the Teach Starter team so you can feel comfortable hitting print and handing them out for whole class, group, and individual student activities.
Are Flashcards Actually Useful?
They're an age-old teaching tool, so you might be asking: are flashcards still valuable in the elementary classroom? Well, yes!
The education research indicates flashcards are every bit as valuable for improving students' metacognition today as they were decades ago when you were sitting behind the student desk. Using flashcards in the classroom — or at home — allows students to practice their active recall and confidence-based repetition.
How to Use Flashcards in the Classroom
Whether you're printing out flashcards for students to use when they're learning sight words, new vocabulary words, place value, or any of the hundreds of thousands of concepts elementary students work through, flashcards can be used in a variety of ways to make learning fun. For example, many popular children's games can be adapted so they can be played with flashcards to help boost students' recall of learned concepts.
Here are a few tried and true ways to use flashcards our teacher team swears by!
- Play a curriculum-based version of the game Memory with flashcards. All the cards are turned upside down, and cards are flipped over two at a time to find matches.
- Play flashcard charades in small groups. Students pick from a pile of cards and act out what they see on the card for their peers to guess.
- Play Who Am I? In this group game, students make a headband out of construction paper that's been stapled to form a wring then staple or tape a flashcard to the center. Students then ask yes or no questions of their classmates in order to guess what is on the flashcard.
- Pronunciation Challenge. Teaching a foreign language this school year? Elementary schoolers can have fun practicing their pronunciation by pulling flashcards from a pile and sounding out the words!
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Th Word List and Digraph Flashcards
Practice reading and spelling words with the Digraph TH with a list of 50 words and accompanying illustrated flash cards.
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Blending Phonemes Fluency Strips
Develop students’ ability to blend phonemes in common words with this comprehensive set of phoneme blending fluency strips.
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Synonyms- Printable Flashcards
Build vocabulary skills with individual Synonym anchor chart flash cards.
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0-20 Number and Word Flashcards - Birds
Use these flashcards when learning about the numbers 0–20.
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Dolch Sight Word Flash Cards
Practice the first 100 Dolch Sight Words with a deck of sight word flash cards.
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Unit Fractions – Deck of Cards
Use this deck of 30 cards to practice different concepts with unit fractions.
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Weather Vocabulary Cards
Use this set of 12 weather vocabulary cards to explore words that cover terms such as sunny, humid, overcast, and foggy.
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CVC/CCVC/CVCC Word Flashcards
A comprehensive set of flashcards for CVC, CCVC, and CVCC words.
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Medial L Words - List & Flashcards
Practice reading and articulating Medial L words with a list of 50 words and accompanying illustrated flash cards.
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CVC Word Chain Sequencing Cards
Practice building word chains involving CVC words with these word chain sequencing cards.
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Fry Sight Words Flash Cards
A set of flash cards for the first 100 Fry Sight Words.
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United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child Flashcards
A set of flashcards outlining the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child
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Ch Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'ch' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
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Sh Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'sh' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
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Veterans Day Vocabulary Cards and Writing Center
Help your kindergartners and first graders understand the meaning of Veterans Day with a Veterans Day Write the Room display.
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Phoneme Segmentation Flashcard Activity Set
Print this phoneme segmentation activity set stocked with 100+ printable flashcards for your classroom reading centers!
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Equivalent Fractions – Deck of Cards
Encourage healthy competition between your students by using this set of 30 equivalent fraction cards to play a variety of math games.
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Illustrated Word Wall — Presidential Words for Presidents' Day
Learn about Presidents’ Day vocabulary with an illustrated presidential word wall for elementary grades.
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Barack Obama - Second Grade Pocket Chart Reading Cards
Reinforce reading skills with 13 informational text passages for second- and third-grade readers about Former President Barack Obama.
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Base-10 Flashcards - Numbers 1–120
A set of Base-10 flashcards for the numbers 1–120.
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Text Features Flashcards
Teach students the definitions of text features such as headings, sidebars, captions and many more with this set of flashcards for elementary students.
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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Flashcards
Use this set of 16 colorful flashcards to introduce students to the attributes that make up simple, compound and complex sentences.
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Place Value Cards - 10,000; 1,000; 100; 10; 1
A set of place value cards to help students explore and expand larger numbers.
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Yoga Poses for Kids - Task Cards
16 kid friendly yoga poses to display and use in the classroom for daily gross motor and fitness activities.
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Ar Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'ar' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
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Consonant Digraph Sound Wall Cards
Guide students through phonics with these consonant digraph sound wall cards for a classroom display.
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Diphthong Vowel Team Sound Wall Cards
Use these diphthong vowel team cards as visuals on a sound wall or as flashcards during your phonics lessons.
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Ng Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'ng' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
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Wh Digraph Words With Images
Learn words that contain the 'wh' digraph with these word and picture flashcards.
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Recognizing Feelings - Flashcards
Improve your students' emotional literacy with this set of feelings flashcards.
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Coding Robot Direction Cards
A selection of coding robot directional cards.
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Classmate Coding - Flashcards and Activities
Introduce your students to the concept of coding by having them "program" a classmate using coding cards.