Transportation Flashcards | Printable Vehicle Picture Cards | 72 Card Pages

Transportation flashcards with vehicle pictures

These transportation flashcards are a packet of 72 card pages, each titled Transportation! with a grid of vehicle pictures. Every picture has its name printed below it, and most pages hold nine cards in three rows.

The set is made for children who are learning vehicle words in English, and for teachers and parents who run a unit on ways to travel. The same vehicles return on many pages in new borders and colors, so children see each word again and again as they go through the pages.

The set works as means of transportation flashcards for a unit on ways to travel. Many cards show land transportation flashcards favorites, such as the car, bus, taxi, truck and bicycle, and the rest cover water and air. Because every page changes color and border, a child who learned bus on one page sees it again in a new look on the next.

What’s on the pages

Each card page has a Transportation! heading in bright letters and a grid of cards with solid, dashed or dotted borders. Stars, dots and confetti fill the edges, so the 72 pages do not all look alike. A few pages use larger cards, with 4 to 6 pictures.

• Road vehicles: car, school bus, bus, taxi, bicycle, motorcycle, scooter, truck, police car and fire truck.
• Rail and water: train, steam train, boat, sailboat, motorboat, ship, cargo ship and submarine.
• Air and space: airplane, helicopter and rocket.
• Farm vehicle: a tractor on a few pages.

The pictures are vehicles only, with no people and no animals. A few labels have spelling slips, such as airpane or rotai, so look through the preview pages before you print.

What’s in the download

The transportation flashcards pdf has 75 pages in total.

• Name page: 1 page with lines for name, class and date
• Vehicle cards: 72 pages, nine cards on most pages
• Two closing pages with a thank you note and copyright information

Everything comes as PDF, so you can print one page for a small group or the whole set. The transportation flashcards printable pages carry their own words, so there is nothing to write by hand, and the large pictures are easy to see from across a table.

How to use transportation flashcards

Print the pages you want and cut the cards apart along their borders. Hold up a card, say the word and let the child repeat it. After a few rounds, hold up a card and ask the child to say the word first.

A few ways to use the cards:

• Lay out nine cards from one page and ask the child to point to the one you name.
• Sort the cards into land, water and air vehicles.
• Ask which vehicle you would take to cross a lake or to travel far.
• Play a guessing game by describing a vehicle and asking children to hold up the card.
• Leave a few pages with a substitute as a quick vocabulary activity.

Transportation flashcards work best in short rounds of five or six cards. Add a few new cards each lesson and bring back the older ones for review. Start with the vehicles children see every day, then move to the ones they only meet in books. A parent can pull a single page out in the car or at the table for two minutes of practice, and a teacher can leave a page at a center for children to name the vehicles to each other. A short talk about where each vehicle goes turns a word list into a real lesson.

Take a look at the preview pages before you buy, so you can see the layout and the pictures.

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