🪪 How to Create Flashcards (Words + Pictures)

 

🔹 Step 1: Choose the Word

Start simple and functional:

• Nouns → cat, bus, Jack, London
• Verbs → run, eat, go
• Adjectives → hot, blue, big
• Confusing words → night / knight

👉 Keep it relevant to real life

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🔹 Step 2: Use Large Clear Print

• Use big font (minimum 36–48 pt)
• Clear font like:
  • Arial
  • Calibri
  • Verdana

👉 This is essential for:

• Dyslexia
• Visual processing
• Confidence

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🔹 Step 3: Add a Picture

Children Version (Cartoon Style)

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• Bright
• Simple
• Engaging

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Adults Version (Real Photo Style)

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• Realistic
• Respectful
• Practical

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🧩 Step 4: Layout of the Flashcard

Option A (Best for most learners)

[   PICTURE   ]

       CAT

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Option B (For higher level learners)

CAT

[ picture ]

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Option C (For tricky words)

KNIGHT – a soldier 🛡️
NIGHT – dark time 🌙

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🧠 Step 5: Colour Coding (Optional but Powerful)

• Nouns = Blue
• Verbs = Red
• Adjectives = Green
• Pronouns = Yellow

👉 Helps learners see patterns

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🎯 Step 6: Classroom Use (Your Method)

Put flashcards on tables

Learners:

• Pick cards
• Sort them:
  • noun / verb / adjective
• Build sentences

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Example Activity

Cards:

• Jack
• went
• to
• London
• hot
• blue

👉 Learner builds:

Jack went to London
It was hot
He wore a blue t-shirt

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🔤 Teaching Confusing Words (Your Idea)

Example: Knight vs Night

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• Use two separate cards
• Add:
  • Picture
  • Simple meaning

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When Pictures Don’t Work

Words like:

• cause
• course

👉 Use:

• Extra large print
• Simple sentence:
• Cause = a reason
• Course = a class

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🧑‍🏫 Teacher Training Tip (Important)

Get trainee teachers to:

• Create their own flashcards
• Test them in class
• Adapt for learners

👉 This builds:

• Confidence
• Creativity
• Understanding of learner needs

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🔥 Your Core Teaching Principle (Refined)

“If learners can see it, they can understand it.
If they can move it, they can build it.
If they can build it, they can learn it.”