I’ve made some free alphabet tracing letter worksheets

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1. I’ve been searching for some tracing letter worksheets and they all had some kind of branding, usage terms, download limitations, paywall or subscription wall. Out of frustration, I decided to create my own set and make them public domain. In other words, those aren’t mine – they are ours. It also means you can do whatever you want with them. Put your school’s logo on them, if you want. Hope this comes in handy for someone out there. Enjoy.

2. You might find fonts to be useful. Like this one

   http://freakfonts.com/fonts/abcprintdottedlined-font-download.html

3. A fun game is to have the alphabet writing race. Gets pretty rowdy. Have the alphabet printed out in a dots/traceable font. Have several of them on both sides of a piece of paper;

   a b c d … x y z

   a b c d … x y z

   a b c d … x y z

   – Get kids in small groups, desks facing each other.

   – Everyone has a pencil. There is one 6-sided die.

   – Student 1 will be writing, so they have their pencil. Everyone else in the group, pencils down.

   – Student 2, to their left, has the die and will be the “timekeeper”.

   – Together, they do a countdown and student 2 starts rolling the die and student 1 starts writing the alphabet.

   – Student 2 rolls the dice as fast as they want. Student 1 writes as fast as they can.

   – When student 2 gets a 6, student 1 must stop writing IMMEDIATELY (even halfway through a letter).

   – Student 1 puts their pencil down. Student 2 passes the die to their left to student 3, and they are now the writer. Student 3 is the timekeeper.

   ** Student 1 and 2 don’t wait for each other every dice roll. It is a race. Student 1 is trying to write as many letters as they can. Student 2 is trying to roll as fast as they can to get a 6 and stop them. The only time there is a countdown is when someone gets out and they switch roles.

   ** When it gets back to student 1, CONTINUE FROM WHERE THEY HAD TO STOP BEFORE. Don’t start on the next set of alphabet letters (unless they got to “z” before).

4. Thanks. This will be useful. I will say, I hate how they teach the kids to write some lowercase letters, like “a”. That is not how I was taught as a kid in America. Pre K through 12th grade and never a time when that was how anyone wrote a lowercase a. Even the a written here is not how its handwritten. I say this because the kids break it up into two strokes, when it should be a single stroke.