How to Name Points, Lines, Segments and Rays
Points, lines, segments and rays are the building blocks of shapes.
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How to do it
- Look at the ends: dots are endpoints and arrows go on forever.
- Two endpoints is a segment, one endpoint and one arrow is a ray.
- Two arrows is a line.
Teaching tip
Draw each figure in the air with a finger as you say its name. This sheet is aligned with Common Core 4.G.A.1.
About this chart
Points, lines, segments, rays and angles with their names, plus parallel, perpendicular and intersecting lines.
What kids practice
Fourth graders learn the names of the building blocks of geometry: points, lines, line segments, rays and angles. They find parallel lines, which never meet, and perpendicular lines, which meet at a right angle. They sort shapes by whether they have parallel sides or right angles, and find lines of symmetry, where a shape folds into two matching halves.
Watch for
- Mixing up a ray and a segment, or a line and a segment.
- Calling any crossing lines perpendicular, even without a right angle.
- Drawing a diagonal line of symmetry on a rectangle that is not a square.
- Missing some lines of symmetry on shapes with many, like a square.
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More sheets in this set
2. Points, Lines, Segments and RaysFigures to name as a point, line, segment, ray or angle. Fewer uses lines, segments and rays only.
3. Parallel or Perpendicular?Pairs of lines to sort as parallel, perpendicular or intersecting, turned in different directions.
4. Sort the ShapesShapes to check for parallel sides and right angles, including triangles, quadrilaterals and more. Standard and More turn the shapes.- See it all
5. How to Find Lines of SymmetryA heart folded on its line of symmetry, and how many lines a square, rectangle, triangles and a parallelogram have. 
6. Draw Lines of SymmetryShapes to draw every line of symmetry on and count them. Some have none.
7. Finish the Symmetric PictureHalf pictures on dot paper to finish across a line of symmetry. More has more pictures and some sideways lines.