Push and Pull Worksheets

About this resource

Most push and pull pages are a handful of pictures and one line to circle. This is a complete kit for the first force-and-motion idea:

a push moves a thing away from me, a pull moves it toward me. A child circles push or pull, says which way it goes, fills in the sentence,

decides which of two things is easier to move, cuts and glues pictures onto a push box and a pull box, and draws a push and a pull of their own.

It comes with a tracker, a class grid and a family update, so nothing has to be written from scratch.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (29 pages)

• 14 student pages in 8 page types: Push and Pull, My Push and Pull Words, Push or Pull?, Away or Toward?, Fill in the Word, Which Is Easier?,

Cut and Glue, and Draw It

• 68 scored items on 10 pages, every answer read from the same data that draws the page, never typed by hand
• 18 drawn scenes (9 pushes and 9 pulls): a box, truck, stroller, wheelbarrow, swing, button, big ball, cart and mower to push; a wagon, sled,

drawer, crate, suitcase, door, toy duck, chair and toy train to pull

• 29 cut-and-glue pieces on 3 sort mats (8, 12 and 9 pieces), 15 push pieces and 14 pull pieces
• 5 Which Is Easier? pairs (the same thing with and without a load, a beach ball and a bowling ball, one box and three stacked boxes)
• 2 answer keys, generated from the same data as the student pages
• 1 tracker (page, page type, items right, date) and 1 whole-class progress grid
• 1 team note (a hand-off page between team meetings) and 1 home page (push and pull at home)
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 observable-language starters), 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label

to cut out

• Start Here and a how-to-read-a-page page

The Page Types, Easiest First

1. Push and Pull (starting): one push and one pull, each with an orange arrow, then two sentences to finish ("I can push a ____.").

2. My Push and Pull Words (starting): a word mat with a picture for push, pull, away, toward, move, stop, heavy and light, to keep beside the child.

3. Push or Pull?, 3 pages (1 to 3 dots): six pictures a page. Set A shows an arrow in every picture and the child circles the word; Set B takes

the arrow away; Set C asks the child to write the word.

4. Away or Toward? (2 dots): six pictures with the arrow. Does it go away from me or toward me?

5. Fill in the Word, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): five sentences a page with a word bank. Set A writes push or pull ("I ____ the wagon."); Set B writes

that and where it goes ("It moves ____ me.").

6. Which Is Easier? (2 dots): five pairs. Circle the one that is easier to push or pull, then write why.

7. Cut and Glue, 3 pages (1 to 3 dots): a big sort mat with a push box and a pull box, and a block of pictures that touch edge to edge, so cutting is

a few straight lines. Set A has arrows on the pieces; Sets B and C do not.

8. Draw It, 2 pages (1 or 3 dots): big drawing boxes. Draw a push and a pull; or draw your own, circle which it is and write two sentences on

primary handwriting lines.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded type, big answer boxes, and dots (not words or colors) to show which level a page is.

Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. Every picture is drawn in the file: a child with hands on the thing, leaning in to push or

holding on and leaning back to pull. There are no photographs and no clip art.

No Guessing The Answer

Wherever a child picks among printed spots (push or pull, which picture is the easier one, the order of the pieces on the cut strip), the position of

the right answer is checked so it does not sit in the same spot three times in a row. The children's shirts, skin and hair come from the same

choices on pushes and pulls, so a color never gives the answer away.

Type In, Or Print

The name line and every answer box are type-in fields in any PDF reader: click one, type, then save. The same goes for the tracker, the class grid,

the team note and the home page. The handwriting lines on the last Draw It page are for pencil. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or

PowerPoint file. No question depends on a color, so it prints fine in black and white.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher adding a force-and-motion lesson to a science block,

a center or a small-group table.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A push-and-pull worksheet set with the record-keeping around it. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool, or a claim about any

student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file.