Teaching students the alphabet is a big part of kindergarten. It builds a foundation for reading and writing. It is essential to becoming a successful student. Here are 26 different ways your students can work with letters and sounds to become alphabet experts!
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Lowercase Letter Mazes
These fun letter mazes are perfect for your early finishers! Students will have repeated exposure to a focus lowercase letter as they make their way through each maze. There is additional handwriting practice included too.
Uppercase Letters Dot-to-Dot
Looking for a quick and fun way for students to work on letter formation? These dot-to-dot worksheets are great for morning work, centers, and homework!
Letter Discrimination Sort
This set of letter discrimination sorts helps your students practice identifying uppercase and lowercase letters. This cut and paste alphabet activity is also great fine motor practice!
Mini Foldable Books
These mini foldable books are great for students to use at school and at home! They are great for quick reference when talking about letters and sounds. Each book features six words that begin with a specific letter.
Letter Case Sorts
This set of letter case sorts helps your students practice identifying uppercase and lowercase letters. This cut and paste alphabet activity is also great fine motor practice!
Beginning Sound Sorts
This set of beginning sound sorts helps your students practice identifying letters and sounds. This cut and paste alphabet activity is also great fine motor practice!
Pattern Block Puzzles
Pattern block alphabet mats are a fun and hands-on way for students to practice making letters. This activity is great for tactile learning and fine motor practice. It is also a subtle way to practice letters and sounds
Play Dough Mats
Mastering the alphabet is a foundational skill that students need repeated practice with. These transportation alphabet play dough mats are a great tool to use all year long! Students will work on mastering the alphabet, beginning sounds, and build fine motor skills in the process.
Dab Lowercase Letters
Keep your students interested and engaged while practicing their alphabet and letter identification skills with these fun worksheets! Students can use bingo daubers or other tools to “dot” their answers on each page.
Write the Room
Are you looking for a way to engage your learners while learning the alphabet? Write the room is a fun and interactive way to get your students moving around the classroom. After placing word cards around the classroom, students will walk around with a clipboard and recording sheet. Students write the words they find on your chosen recording sheet.
This is another sneaky way to work in letters and sounds practice because kids just love this activity!
Roll and Color
Keep your students engaged with these roll and color alphabet worksheets! Students will love rolling a die and coloring based on the color code as they work on identifying uppercase and lowercase letters.
Alphabet Sentences
Are your kindergarten students excited to read, but don’t have a lot of word knowledge yet? Let them start reading with this alphabet sentences pack! The resources included can be used for guided reading, independent literacy centers, homework, tutoring, or whole group instruction.
Repeated practice with resources like these help students master their letters and sounds.
Write and Wipe Letter Formation
Use these fun and simple centers to practice handwriting along with content area skills like letters and sounds. These activities are a great way to practice fine motor skills – especially at the beginning of the year!
Dab Uppercase Letters
Keep your students interested and engaged while practicing their alphabet and letter identification skills with these fun worksheets! Students can use bingo daubers or other tools to “dot” their answers on each page.
Dab the Picture
These alphabet worksheets are a fun way to reinforce letters and sounds and work on fine motor skills at the same time. Each page has a sentence that reads “[Picture] begins with the letter [letter name].” The sentence gives your learners a chance to practice reading as well!
Beginning Sound Picture Hunt
These fun beginning sound picture hunts are perfect for your fast finishers! Students will work on identifying the beginning sound of various pictures and have more exposure to the spelling of common words.
Shape Books
When teaching or reviewing the alphabet, use this quick and easy phonics activity. Students will create shape books for each letter of the alphabet and sort pictures that begin with that letter.
Alphabet Quilt
Create an eye-catching letters and sounds bulletin board or display it in your classroom with this alphabet quilt! Students will work together to design a quilt that they can reference throughout the year.
Handwriting Practice
Handwriting is an important skill that every kindergarten student needs to master. Pair your handwriting practice with the alphabet using these simple tracing worksheets. Your students will love getting creative with the picture portion of these pages!
Geoboard Mats
Students will love these engaging and interactive geoboard mats as they work on letter identification and building fine motor skills! These cards are great for morning work, small groups, early finishers, or as a literacy center.
Alphabet Flip Books
Use these fun interactive flip books when learning or reviewing the letters of the alphabet. This book can be completed individually, in small groups, or as a class.
Building Bricks
Increase engagement and learning in your literacy centers with this Building Brick by Brick activity. Students will love building lowercase letters with their building bricks.
Color by Number
When you’re teaching the alphabet, your students are likely working on numbers, colors, handwriting, and fine motor skills too. These alphabet color by number worksheets combine all five skills.
Self-Correcting Puzzles
These self-correcting alphabet puzzles are the perfect addition to your literacy centers. Students will match the uppercase and lowercase letters to the appropriate picture highlighting the beginning sound.
Circle, Count, and Graph
These letter identification worksheets are perfect for morning work, independent centers, or homework when working with the alphabet. Students will search through 30 uppercase and lowercase letters, circle the uppercase letters in red, circle the lowercase letters in blue, and graph the letters. Students will also practice writing the letters at the bottom of the page.
Roll and Trace
Keep your students engaged with these roll and trace alphabet worksheets! Students will love rolling a die and tracing letters based on the color code. This is like rainbow writing with a twist!
Creation Castle
Heather is the author of Creation Castle. She has experience with general education, special education, and ESL students in kindergarten through fifth grade. She specializes in early elementary math and literacy, as well as organization.
