We can never have too many fun letter resources and these alphabet activity books are a great way to help reinforce your child’s learning.
What you’ll need
Click on the following highlighted link to get your Alphabet Activity Books (A-E). They’ll be sent immediately to your downloads folder or other device equivalent.
They come in both US and Australian spelling versions, so choose which ones you want to use before you print!!
Making your alphabet activity books
They’re super easy, just follow the instructions included in the pack. All it takes is creating one slit in the paper, and then folding on the lines to create one 8-page book. The picture below that shows you how is taken from a Math 0-5 post. You can pop over there to find those very popular little math books. They’re free too!
Using these alphabet activity books
Each book follows the same format.
Page 1: cover – write their name and trace the letters correctly
Page 2: Trace the lower case letters
Page 3: Trace the upper case letters
Page 4: Colour each circle that contains the target lower case letter
Page 5: Colour each circle that contains the target upper case letter
Page 6: Colour the pictures that represent a word starting with the target letter. If you are not sure what the word is, check the list on the Beginning Sounds Pictures list included in the download.
Page 7: Write the target letter in the spaces to form words. Practice reading those words.
Page 8: Highlight the target letters in each sentence. Can they sound out any of the words? Can they recognize other letters? Read the sentence together a few times.
Want the whole set?
You can find the whole A-Z set at my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
More free alphabet books
Pop over to grab some alphabet emergent readers. Again, A-E are free!
I hope your little ones enjoy these books and wish you happy teaching and learning!
These will be perfect for my students that need that little bit extra!!
I hope they enjoy them, Kathy!
Can you send me a free copy or packet of the ABC Book to my Email Account or Address?
Hi Pamela,
You can download these directly yourself by clicking on the link that’s just below the main graphic. Only A-E are free, the others are available at my store. I rarely email resources due to size limits. I hope your child enjoys these books!
Hi Liz,
I love your site,It’s amazing.
When do you think particular fonts should be introduced to children’s handwriting?
I don’t think it’s necessary till well into kindergarten.I think the pattern and direction of letter formation is so
much more important.Hence the use of “ball and stick” formation.I would love your opinion.
Thanks for your comment, Elinka! I don’t have a strong opinion about specific ages for introducing writing because children are all so different. I disagree with introducing writing when the child would benefit more from general fine motor skill activities because they’re not ready. But some children LOVE ‘writing’ and can start quite young. I’ve taught plenty of 4 year olds that have excellent fine motor skills and plenty of 5 year olds that find the whole process quite stress-inducing.
The problems come when policies are created that insist that all children should achieve x, y and z by a specific date. Having said that, I’ve also seen capable (and willing) children held back by teachers who insist on waiting because they don’t believe kids should start so young.
So for me, it’s more about really knowing a child well and making those decisions based on that knowledge rather than what policy says. Unfortunately, most teachers have no choice but to at least attempt to follow the guidelines of the school. And this is not even taking into account societal expectations, parent expectations, colleague’s expectations and the teacher’s own teaching philosophy!