
Flashcards for Early Learning
Young children are constantly learning by experimenting, thinking and problem-solving. They enjoy actively engaging with their environment. This includes observing things and people as well as listening to and making sounds and words. They also explore objects and experiment with textures and materials such as water, sand and dirt.
Whilst children use all of their senses to learn, what they see and what they learn from what they see is vital, as it is for adults. Around 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual in nature and is processed very quickly. Studies show that we typically retain 65% of the information that is visual compared with only 10 to 20% of information that is written or spoken.
Why flashcards can support a child’s learning
Flashcards are an excellent resource for teaching young children. Here’s why:


What our flashcards can teach
Our flashcards can support many areas of early learning. These include:
How to use our flashcards
Each of our flashcard sets includes an easy to use set of instructions. There are a mix of matching, touching, sorting, acting, saying and describing activities.
These activities are typically organised in order of difficulty, with the easier activities described at the start of the guide and the more challenging ones described further on. There are activities that are appropriate for people:
- of any age
- who are verbal or non verbal
- at different stages in their level of ability


Free Download: Flashcard Activity Guides
Take the guess work out of how to use the cards by following our activity guides. With simple, step-by-step advice and helpful pictures, they’ve been designed so that you get the most out of the cards and out of each lesson with your student. Feel purposeful, organised and confident whilst you teach.
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Enhancing vocabulary
The Nouns and Categories Sets were designed to support the teaching of vocabulary. Typically, the more words that a child understands and uses, the greater their ease of communication.
Putting words together to form sentences
Our Verbs and Go Togethers Sets are designed to encourage putting words together, technically known as the mean length of utterance. This matters because children are better able to communicate their wants, needs and ideas when they put words together rather than using one at a time.
Reasoning skills
The Opposites and Prepositions Sets are all about encouraging your child to use their reasoning skills, which is thinking through problems and applying strategies to solve them.
Emotional literacy
Emotions Volume 1 and 2 are designed to teach the fundamentals of emotional literacy, which is the ability to identify, understand and respond appropriately to our own emotions and those around us.
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