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 programmes 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.
In the MATATAG curriculum
- KinderWriting letters in capitals and lower case, and saying the sound each letter stands for.
- Grade 1Reading and Literacy: naming the letters of the first language, saying their sounds and writing words legibly.
- Grade 2English and Filipino begin as separate subjects, with English starting from letter names and short word patterns.
Since School Year 2025–2026, DepEd Order No. 20, s. 2025 has made Filipino and English the main languages of instruction from Kinder to Grade 3. In classes where learners speak different home languages, Grade 1 Reading and Literacy is taught in Filipino; a class that shares one home language may use it instead if the school meets DepEd’s conditions.
The letter shapes are the same in English and Filipino, so these sheets serve both, but the picture words (apple, kite) are English. Ñ and NG, the two letters of the Filipino alphabet that English lacks, are on the Filipino alphabet page.
Summarised in our own words from DepEd’s MATATAG Kindergarten, Reading and Literacy (Grade 1) and English (Grades 2–10) Curriculum Guides (2023), and DepEd Order No. 20, s. 2025.
