Preschool Find and Name Lowercase Letters worksheets

About this worksheet

Small letters fill the books a child will read, yet their shapes are the harder set to hold onto. Many share the same round part or tall line, and a preschooler has to learn to look at what is different. This worksheet puts one small letter in a box and asks the child to find it again below. The easy level offers shapes that look nothing alike; the middle level offers real look-alikes, so m sits beside n and r, and a sits beside e and o.

The hardest level leaves the box empty and an adult says the letter name, so the child has to bring the shape to mind on their own. The tricky mirror pairs, b and d, p and q, are kept off this page on purpose: reversals are ordinary until about age seven, and they are better met later, one pair at a time. Hold two letters side by side, name the part that differs, and move on rather than repeating the same letter until it sours.

What your child will learn

• Match a small letter to the same printed shape
• Tell m from n and r by counting the humps
• Use dots, tails and tall lines as clues
• Find a small letter from its spoken name alone

Head Start ELOF standard: P-LIT 3, RF.K.1.D