Preschool Opposite Words worksheets

About this worksheet

Opposites are the first word relationship most children notice, because the two ends of an idea explain each other: big means more when little is standing next to it. This page shows one picture, says the word that describes it, and asks for the opposite among three or four other pictures. Every distractor is a real, sensible thing, and on the middle level one of them is deliberately merely different rather than opposite — an elephant is not the opposite of heavy, it is another heavy thing — because telling different from opposite is the whole point.

The last level takes the picture away. The grown-up says only a word, such as hot, and three of the four pictures are hot things; the one that is not is the opposite. A child who simply reaches for the first picture that goes with the word will be wrong, and that is useful to see.

What your child will learn

• Match a word to the picture at the other end of the same idea
• Tell an opposite apart from a word that is merely different
• Use opposites for size, weight, speed, feeling, push and pull, and day and night
• Find the opposite of a word you only hear

Head Start ELOF standard: P-LC 7, L.K.5.B