Take Your Positions Worksheet
This take your positions worksheet helps kindergarten students practice left and right by circling where each picture sits in its box. An answer key is included for fast, easy checking.
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Left and right are two of the first position words young children need, and they are surprisingly tricky, because the words describe where something is rather than what it is. This take your positions worksheet gives kindergarten students a clear, picture-first way to practice them. Every item shows a box split down the middle by a line, with one friendly object sitting wholly in the left half or wholly in the right half. Students look at where the picture sits, then circle the word Left or the word Right underneath.
The page is built so the only way to answer is to know left from right. The two choice words are stacked one above the other in every card, never printed under their own half, so a child cannot simply circle the word closest to the picture. The six pictures, an ice cream cone, a sunflower, a juice box, a traffic cone, a carrot and a water bottle, need no reading at all, and the answers are mixed so there is no pattern to copy. Before starting, have students hold up their left hand and make an L with the thumb and pointer finger, then use that trick on each box. A full answer key is included on the second page of this take your positions worksheet for quick checking.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- 6 picture cards, each with a two-part box and the words Left and Right to circle
- Original colorful illustrations with no reading required
- A complete answer key
Three reasons this page helps kindergarten students. First, the box gives every item a clear frame of reference, which is exactly what position words need to make sense. Second, circling a word builds early following directions skills along with the math vocabulary. Third, the mixed order of answers keeps students looking and thinking on every card instead of guessing.
Teachers and parents can extend the lesson in many ways. Play a quick game of Simon Says with left and right moves. Put a toy on the left or right side of a book and ask students to name its position. Tape an L sticker on each child’s left hand for a day. Pair this page with a top and bottom activity so students practice all the position words together. It also works well as a kindergarten following directions worksheet in a math center, as morning work, or as a homeschool geometry lesson.
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