Identifying Simple Shapes - SEN / Nursery

Resources made for very low ability SEN pupils to use in secondary maths lessons - identifying and matching simple shapes. May also be similarly useful with nursery age pupils.

Identifying Shapes worksheets have a number of simple pictures composed from component shapes. Pupils must cut and stick cards labelling the shapes, matching these correctly. Sheets go in order of least challenging (matching exact like to like) to more challenging (matching type of shape to type of shape, without exact correspondence).

Shapes cards are for matching with the corresponding section of the relevant worksheet. Higher challenge comes from matching shapes of different sizes, rather than those of identical correspondence. Further challenge can be found in the second set of shape cards, in which pupils must match very irregular shapes with their standard forms - prompted to do so by counting and comparing number of sides.