ACTIVITY 1 OF 5
d for duck: a round body and tall stem
Colour the duck and practise a round lowercase d with a tall stem. The short first sound, adult model and writing activity are separate; duck tracing and copying are optional.
FIVE WAYS TO TRY ONE LETTER
Lowercase d practice
Round the bowl first, then make the tall right-hand stem of d. The duck worksheet, enlarged movement and letter-finding page lead into dog, dad and dig, followed by a digging dog scene. An adult names the pictures, including the father with a child; whole-word copying is optional.
Print all five d activities
One activity per page, in the order below. Choose the PDF for your A4 or US Letter paper. There is no cover or blank page.
Choose one activity
ACTIVITY 2 OF 5
Large lowercase d
Build lowercase d from its rounded bowl, then travel up and down the tall right stem. Watch an adult model the movement before tracing the large path or making your own.
ACTIVITY 3 OF 5
Find lowercase d
Which letters have a bowl on the left and a tall stem on the right? Compare d with b and descending p, and mark the six d choices with an adult.
ACTIVITY 4 OF 5
d in little words
Use the dog, father-and-child and digging pictures to introduce dog, dad and dig with an adult. Find the first d in each word; dad also ends with d, and copying is optional.
ACTIVITY 5 OF 5
Dog digging
Watch the dog pushing soil out of its hole as you colour the digging scene. Follow the lowercase d row; optional word practice uses dog or dig with an adult.
Around first, then up and down
Start near the top right of the bowl and curve anticlockwise around it. Travel up the right-hand stem, then come down to the writing line. This starting movement differs from b, which begins with its tall left stem.
On the finding page, compare d with b and p. The p reaches below the writing line, so there is extra space between the rows. Point to the right stem of each of the six d letters before circling or colouring them.
Say dog, dad and dig together and listen for initial d. An adult can call the pictured father dad. The first d is marked in dad, which also ends with d; the digging scene supplies a picture cue for the action word dig.
For uppercase and lowercase together, try the Dd alphabet colouring and tracing sheet. These five activities focus on lowercase d, including dog, dad, dig. See printing and paper-size help when choosing a PDF.
Return to the letter practice shelf to choose another available activity. Follow the child’s interest and stop when they have had enough.