Name tracing worksheet
Type a name to repeat it in pale letters between writing guides.
Ten short sentences a page, written for this site, to find the nouns in, the verb, or the adjectives, or all three: underline the nouns, circle the verb and draw a box around each adjective. Every sentence has one verb and no tricky words, and the key lists the words in each. New sentences each time.

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Nouns, verbs and adjectives usually come in grade 1, when children start to use them in their own writing, and finding them in a sentence suits grades 1 to 3. Start with nouns, then verbs, then adjectives, one at a time; the sheet with all three asks the child to tell them apart in one sentence.
A noun names a person, a place, an animal or a thing: Mia, beach, fox, ball. A verb tells what someone or something does: ran, baked, shook. An adjective describes a noun: a tall giraffe, the wet grass. To check a word, ask: can I put the in front of it, or is it someone's name (noun), can I do it (verb), or does it tell me what something is like (adjective)? On these sheets a, an and the are left out.
Type a name to repeat it in pale letters between writing guides.
Trace pale uppercase and lowercase letters, A to Z and a to z, on eight rows of handwriting guide lines, starting at the top of each letter. Or print one letter a page: the letter to look at, rows to trace, then rows to write it alone.
Trace the digits 0 to 9, a full row of them on each of eight rows of handwriting guide lines. Or print one number a page, 0 to 20: the number and its word to look at, counters to count, rows to trace, then rows to write it alone.
Type one question and answer per line, separated by a vertical bar. Cut out the cards to study.
Type the words you want to practice. Pale cursive letters sit between writing guides.
Eight short-vowel word families on one sheet, from -at and -an to -et and -in: each word has its first letters printed and its ending pale to trace, with a line below to write the whole word. Type your own endings and first letters to make another sheet.
Elkonin boxes, or sound boxes: eight pictures to name, each with a box for every sound in its word, from egg with two sounds to rocket with five. Type your own words and how many sounds each has to make your own sheet.
Look, say, cover, write, check: each word in the first column to read aloud, then columns to write it from memory, check it and write it again. Type this week’s spelling words, up to 15 a sheet, or print the twelve everyday words it opens on.
Ten writing prompts for children, one a page, each in a box at the top with ruled lines below to write on: a door that was never there, a pet that talks for a day, a new holiday to invent. Add a space to draw for younger writers, or type your own prompts.
A bank of words to read and sort, four for each sound, and a column for each sound to write them in: short vowels (cat, bed, pig, dog, sun), the digraphs sh, ch, th and wh, the blends bl, cr, st and fl, or long vowel spellings (cake, tree, bike, bone, cube). The key fills in the columns. New words each time.
Eight pictures a page, each with its letters jumbled in tiles beside it and a box for each letter: say the name of the picture, then build the word from the tiles. Short vowel words such as sun, cup and fish, or on the harder sheet words with ee, oo, ea, ar and ir, such as tree, moon and bird. The key gives the words. Each sheet draws eight of sixteen words, so the words, their order and the tiles change each time.
Twelve pictures a page, each a short word with a short vowel: write the missing vowel under each picture, circle the vowel sound you hear, or find the pictures with one vowel’s sound, a, e, i, o or u. The answer key follows. Each copy draws new pictures.
No sheets match that. Try a shorter word.
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