How it works
- Pick your letters: the whole alphabet, the vowels, or just this week’s letter.
- Choose capitals, lowercase or both, and a handwriting style.
- Set the size and rows. The sheet on the right updates as you go.
- Download and print. All the letters you picked come out in one PDF.
What’s on each sheet
Every row starts with a model box: the letter in solid ink, a colour picture and its word, like an apple for A and a kite for K. (X shows a fox, as many phonics programs do, because so few words start with x.) Beside it are three-line handwriting guides with the letter in grey, dotted or hollow outline to trace, and empty space at the end of the row to write it alone. With start dots switched on, the first letter to trace in each row shows a green dot where the pencil starts and a red arrow for the first move.
Teaching letter formation
Start at the top
Almost every print letter starts at the top line or the dashed midline and moves down. Children who learn this early write faster and more neatly later, and it stops habits like drawing an o clockwise from the bottom.
Group letters by how they start
Many teachers introduce letters in families rather than in A to Z order: the “magic c” letters (c, a, d, g, o, q) all start with the same curve, and the down-stroke letters (l, i, t) are the easiest of all. Pick a family with the letter tiles.
Say it while they write
Talk through the strokes out loud (“start at the top, pull down, lift, cross”) and have children say the letter’s sound and the example word.
Provincial curriculum links
- BC KLetter knowledge: naming most letters, matching most letters to their sounds, and pairing capitals with lowercase letters.
- BC Grade 1–2Legible printing, with spaces between letters and between words.
- ON KThe Ontario Curriculum, Kindergarten, 2026, in use from 2026–27, adds explicit teaching of phonemic awareness and phonics to learning through play.
- ON Grade 1–3The Foundations of Language strand teaches letters, sounds and word reading directly and systematically.
Many Canadian children meet letters over two years of Kindergarten (Junior and Senior Kindergarten in Ontario), so letter work is spread out: playing with letter shapes and sounds first, then forming them on lines. Say each letter’s sound as children trace, since both provinces tie letter names to sounds from the very start.
French Immersion classes use the same print letters, so the tracing rows work in either language, though the picture words are in English.
Summarized in our own words from BC English Language Arts (K–2), The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Language (2023) and The Ontario Curriculum, Kindergarten, 2026.
