Trace the alphabet, a letter a page
One letter to a page: the capital and small letter drawn big with their stroke order, a picture to color, the word it starts, and rows to trace all three. Twenty-six pages, A is for apple to Z is for zebra.
- Letter & A4, portrait or landscape
- Real stroke centerlines, not outlines
- Change the size and reprint
Trace the letter A and a
NameStart on the dot and follow the arrow. Trace the faint ones, then write your own.
This is page one of 26 at the default size. Open it in the maker to print the rest, choose a range, or fit more on a page.
About this sheet
The other alphabet sheets here give a letter one row, which is the right size for practice and the wrong size for meeting it. A letter a child is seeing for the first time wants a page of its own: big enough to trace with a finger before a pencil, with a picture to say its sound, and a word to show that it is the start of something. This is the letter-of-the-week page, and the rows under the example are where the week's practice goes.
Why it is drawn this way
Every word starts with the sound a child is taught first rather than the one a picture book reaches for. A is apple, not acorn; E is egg; I is igloo rather than ice cream; O is octopus rather than owl; C and G are carrot and goat, the hard sounds. A picture is there to tie the shape to its sound, and “ice cream” ties I to the wrong one. X is the honest exception — no common word starts with its usual sound, so it is xylophone, as on every alphabet chart.