Name the Shape
Grade 1 · medium
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Write the name of each shape on the line.
1.circle
2.rectangle
3.rectangle
4.diamond
5.pentagon
6.diamond
7.triangle
8.pentagon
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Name the shape, or count its sides
Shape recognition that grows into geometry. The gentle setting is the four shapes every child meets first; the challenge setting switches the question from naming to counting sides.
- Shapes drawn geometrically, so a hexagon really has six equal sides
- A square is drawn square, not tilted into a diamond
- Four shapes across a page
- Matching answer key
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What’s on the sheet
- Shapes to name, count sides on, or match
- Shapes drawn at varied sizes and rotations, not always sitting flat
- 4 to 12 shapes per page
- A matching answer key
What each difficulty means
Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.
Gentle start
Circle, square, triangle and rectangle — name each one.
Just right
Adds pentagon, hexagon, oval and diamond — name each one.
Extra challenge
Count the straight sides instead of naming the shape.
Grades this covers
Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.
A triangle balanced on a point is still a triangle
Children who have only ever seen shapes drawn the tidy way up will confidently tell you that a square turned forty-five degrees is a diamond. That is not a silly mistake — it is exactly what they have been shown — and it is why the shapes on these sheets appear at different sizes and rotations.
Naming a shape by its properties rather than its picture is the actual geometry skill, and it starts here.
Counting sides beats memorising names
A child who counts five sides and says pentagon can name a shape they have never seen. A child who has memorised the picture of a pentagon cannot. The harder settings lean on the counting rather than on recognition for this reason.
The same applies to corners, which are worth counting on the same page — noticing that the two numbers always match is a small discovery worth letting them make.
Questions
Which shapes are included?
Circle, oval, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, pentagon, hexagon and octagon, depending on the difficulty.
How are curved shapes handled when counting sides?
A circle and an oval have no straight sides, so the answer is zero — which is the point of including them.
More practice to try
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