Putting areas of transportation into groups or simply creating lists of transportation words would be a great example (Reading Rockets, 2015). This would be more common for higher level grades but could be modified to help younger students. Things such as past, future, present are areas where students could sort terms into when important events had happened. Social Studies can also can be a sorting area because of the numerous terms that are used. First students make a list of plant words and then place them into groups such as types of plants, parts of plants, where plants grow, and what plants need to grow (Reading Rockets, 2015). Reading rockets also gives an example of a plant word sort. In this lesson the words are being sorted into solid, liquid, and gas. The science lesson plan below also deals with language arts because they are working with specific vocabulary words. For example, if you had two list titles 'addition' and 'subtraction, ' students could sort a list of math terms into the category they see best fit.Ī science word sort can be similar to math because again words can be separated into groups they belong. The example 'word sort math lesson' below shows that you can use a sort to place terms in rows or columns according to the meaning of each term. When working with math vocabulary, especially in the younger grades word sorts can be a great tool.

Vocabulary word sorts