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Identify Horizontal, Vertical and Slanting Lines

In this worksheet, students will recognise lines that are horizontal, vertical or slanting.

'Identify Horizontal, Vertical and Slanting Lines' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 3 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Geometry: Properties of Shapes

Curriculum subtopic:   Identify Line Types

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

In this activity, we will be learning about horizontal and vertical lines. 

 

Straight lines are horizontal if they go across from side to side, without going up or down at all.

 

 

Straight lines are vertical if they go straight up and down, or top to bottom, without going across at all.

 

 

Lines are slanting if they don't go straight across or straight up. They look like a slope and go both up and down, and across too.

 

 

Let's try a question together about horizontal and vertical lines. 

 

Example

Look at this picture.

How many horizontal lines are there?

 

house with horizontal lines

 

Answer

There are six horizontal lines shown in red below.

 

house showing horizontal lines

 

Let's have a go at spotting horizontal and vertical lines in the questions now.

 

girl with magnifying glass

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