Transportation Chart | Printable Vehicles Chart for Preschool | 52 Chart Pages

Transportation chart pages for vehicles vocabulary

This set is a packet of 52 pages, each with a Transportation or Transportation Chart heading and a grid of vehicle pictures. Most pages show 4 to 6 vehicles with the name printed next to each one, and some pages have blank lines under the pictures for children to write the word.

It is made for preschool and kindergarten children who are learning vehicle words, and for teachers who run a unit on ways to travel. The same vehicles return on many pages in new borders and colors, so children see car, bus, train, boat and airplane again and again.

A teacher who wants a classroom transportation chart for the wall can print a page with the names already on it. The same pages work as a transportation chart for students to fill in, and as a means of transportation chart for a unit on ways to travel. Hung as a transportation anchor chart, one page gives the whole class a shared reference for vehicle words.

What’s on the pages

Every page has its own look. Some pages have colored stamp-style borders around each picture, some have thick black frames and some have plain white tiles. Stars, dots and confetti fill the edges.

• Road vehicles: car, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, motor scooter, pickup truck, taxi and dump truck.
• Rail and water: train, sailboat, boat, ship and submarine.
• Air: airplane, helicopter and hot air balloon.
• Fill-in pages: pictures of vehicles with blank lines under each one, where children write the name.

The pictures are vehicles only, with no people and no animals. A few labels are shortened, such as moto for motorcycle, so look through the preview pages before you print.

What’s in the download

The transportation chart pdf has 55 pages in total.

• Name page: 1 page with lines for name, class and date
• Transportation chart pages: 52 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 pictures are large and the names are in clear print, so the pages are easy to read from across a room.

How to use the chart pages

Print a page with the vehicle names already on it and hang it on the wall, or cut the pictures apart and use them as cards. Print a fill-in page when you want children to write the words themselves.

A few ways to use the pages:

• Hang a chart on the wall and point to a vehicle while the class says its name.
• Ask children to sort the vehicles into land, water and air.
• Let each child pick a favorite vehicle and write its name on a fill-in page.
• Play a guessing game by describing a vehicle and asking children to find it on the chart.
• Leave a page with a substitute as a quick vocabulary activity.

The pages work best in short rounds. Start with car, bus, train, boat and airplane, then add the rest as children feel ready. Children also like spotting the same vehicle in a different picture on the next page. A child who learned bus on the first page will find it again, in a new color and a new frame, a few pages later. That kind of repeat visit is how new words become familiar ones. Teachers can also ask children to count the wheels on each vehicle, or to say which ones travel on a road, on water or in the sky.

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

For more printables, browse the flashcards category. You can also find more classroom pages in the activities section and the whole shop.

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