Letter Recognition Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.K.1.D

Core Standard
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Learning those twenty-six pesky letters is the first hurdle students must master before taking steps towards reading. Students advance from learning their letters to naming and spelling words. Students that do not know their letters have a huge obstacle in front of them to grasping reading. Your student’s ability to pick up on letter recognition is a heavy indicator of how well they read in the future. If they are struggling here, they will struggle to read for sure. The worksheets on this page will engage students in the process of learning their letters and making peace with the alphabet.

Letter Recognition Worksheets To Print:

Vowel Recognition – A word find becomes a letter find.

Learning Uppercase – We give you a lower case letter and ask you to write it as an UPPER CASE letter.

Learning Lowercase – Now do the exact opposite of what you just did.

Fill-in-the-Blank – Write the letter of the picture. If you're not sure the prompt will help you.

Brainstorming About the Letter A – Everything "A" you can think of goes in that box.

Recognizing the Letter B – The question at the end is almost laughable, but some students don't get it.

"C" It in the Books – Tear apart your favorite read.

Hunting Down the Letter D – What starts with "D" in your class?

Find the Letter E – Circle the items that start with the letter E.

Scavenger Hunt – Find and hide the items on the checklist.

Pick out the Letter G – In small groups, look at the items at each station. Write down the item that starts with the letter G in the correct box.

Read & Find – Read the partial story below and circle all the H's and h's.

"I" Spy the Similarity – Look at the images below and fill in the blanks and answer the questions.

"J" Walking – Help the dog get to the dog food by creating a path from the dog to his food. Color in all the J's or j's.

Thinking about the Letter K – The letter k is a little tricky because "k" and "c" sometimes sound alike.

Capital or Lowercase L? – Color the capital L's one color and the lowercase l's another color.

The Letter M – What else starts with the letter M? Draw an M in each box for the images that starts with M.

Recognizing N – Color all the boxes of the words that have the letter N in them to reveal a special image.

Oscar the Octopus – Write a short story (4-5 sentences) about an Octopus name Oscar.

Circle the P's – Circle all the words that start with the letter P.

Recognizing Q Words – Put an X by all the words that start with the letter Q.

Fill-in-the-Blanks: Letter R – Fill in all the blanks with the letter R.

S is for... – Color all the S's in the chart below and answer the questions.

Things that Start with T – Color the picture below. As you color it, think of the letter that the picture starts with.

Can "U" figure it out? – Fill in the blanks in each sentence with the letter "u."

V Word Search – Find and circle all the V words in the list below.

Matching W words – Draw a line from the letter W to all the things that start with W.

X Marks the Spot – Each grouping of words has 3 words with the letter X in it.

Recognizing the Letter Y – Draw a box around every word that has the letter Y in it.

Writing & Recognizing the Letter Z – Write capital and lowercase Z three times as shown on each line.

B or D? - What does this picture start with?

Big O, Little o - Color the hockey pucks that contain a capital O. Do not color the pucks that contain a lower case o.

M or N? - Find and count the letters.

h or n? - Ask the child to look at each item, starting at the top row and moving from left to right. Draw a circle around every h. Draw a square around every n.

P, G, or Q? - A couple of tricky ones for you.

Nn - Color the squares to connect the pattern N-n-N-n from the beginning to the end of the maze.

Find the b! - Ask the child to look at each item, starting at the top row and moving from left to right. Draw a circle around every b.

b and d - Cut out each square. Glue them into the correct column.

F or T? - Toes, toasters, and flamingos.

Blue and Red - Color this maze based on the ley at the top of the worksheet.

Find the m! - We styled this and color it so that you will need to concentrate.

i or j? - Color the flags with i red. Color the flags with j blue. Are there more red flags or more blue flags?

I or J? - Make sure to circle all of the instances of them.

G and Q - We choose characters that can be easily confused.

V or W? - Find the them and then count up how many you find.

More Letter Worksheet Topics:

Alphabet Flashcards – Great to help you practice your everyday letters of the alphabet.

Naming Upper and Lower Case Letters - This helps students learn how to differentiate between case.

How to Help Students Learning Their Letters


When you are a freshman teacher who has not had much experience teaching the letters of the alphabet, you will often start students off with flashcards. While this is effective for some students, other students will struggle with this method. As a teacher at this grade level we have to accept the gravity of the importance to which this section of student learning translates to reading. You should work to master your ability to convey letter recognition to students. As my mentor teacher often told me, the first five years of teaching you will learn the content and skills that you teach. The rest of your career you will struggle to find the best way to teach it to students.


I find it helpful for students to first learn the order of the letters in the alphabet. I start with the alphabet song and move on to sequence activities. I then move on to alphabet charts and pick out individual letters and make sure a picture association is always presented for them with each new letter. We then move on to the difference between upper and lower case letters. Believe it or not, students have a good deal of trouble with this. I like to end off by reading nursery rhymes and having students identifying letters throughout our time reading together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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