Category Completion Answer Key

This worksheet presents five category prompts and asks students to list additional examples that fit each one. Students analyze the category title, think of appropriate items that match the criteria, and write them inside the provided box. This activity encourages retrieval of prior knowledge and strengthens semantic connections. By generating their own examples, learners demonstrate understanding of topics such as reptiles, kitchen appliances, flying objects, woodwind instruments, and light sources. This open-ended task supports creativity while reinforcing categorization skills essential for reading comprehension and scientific thinking.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Word Relationships and Categorization

Science – Classification of Animals and Physical Phenomena

Music – Identifying Instrument Families

Critical Thinking – Generating Category Examples

This worksheet is part of our Classifying and Categorizing Information Worksheets collection.