Naming Upper and Lower Case Letters Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.K.1.D

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Students will often have a problem when they are first presented with the difference in case of letters. The real reason is because many letters look similarly. Take for instance "I" (the Capital Letter as in the name Irene) and the lower case letter "l" (as in the name Larry). It is easy to see how new learners could be tripped up a bit with these. Students often have much more success with recognizing lower case letters, so that is always a good place to begin for teachers. The use of upper case letters in the form of capitalization helps make our written language much more clear to readers. This encourages us to have students understand the differences between the uses of letters at an early age.

Naming Upper and Lower Case Letters Worksheets To Print:

Going Nuts! - Identify the matching letter pairs. Color each nut to indicate this for the squirrel.

Snow Day! - Color the snowmen that have the same letters. We will see how you are making out with this skill on this worksheet.

Play Ball! - You will need a red and blue crayon for this one. This works on your ability to separate members of the alphabet from numbers.

Letter Fun - Time for a little alphabetization skills here. You will put everything in alphabetic order. There is a reference chart for you.

Playing Detective! - Random letters and numbers are just flying around. You will circle some of the symbols and draw boxes around the others.

Hungry Bookworms - Circle the partner letters in each apple. You will see two in each apple, but only two of them are working together.

Love Birds - Write each set of letters in order. You will handwrite them in the spaces that are provided for you.

Treats for Tippy! - Match the letter pairs by cutting and pasting. Give each dog a bone along the way here.

Swimming Swans - Color each swan that contains partner letters. You will just leave it blank or uncolored, if there is not a match.

A Beary Good Time - Circle the bears holding partner letters. In the second part of this worksheet you will write each letter you circled in the middle. Then write the symbols that come before and after it in the alphabet.

Morning on the Farm - Write the missing letters. Use the chart as a guide. Make sure that you realize that we are looking for you to write in the lowercase form.

The Letter Monster - Alphabetize each set of letters that you are given. There are four for you to totally rearrange.

Eggs! - Give those eggs some order to their day. Drop them in the right basket and make it work for you.

Silly Snakes - Match the CAPITAL and lower case letters with scissors and glue. Just pop it right on top of the other one that is inside the snake.

Super Seal Tricks! - Read each set of letters. Color the box of the letter that comes first in ABC order. So in each row you are looking for the letter that is furthest to the left on the reference chart.

What Is the Best Way to Learn Your Upper Case and Lower Case Letters?

By now students have a solid understand of the alphabet, but they may still be tripped up by the case of a letter and how the two letters differ at all. I see this often with the lower case “l” (as in Larry) and upper case “I” (as in Irene). I often find the best way to overcome this is repetition and volume. This selection of worksheets focuses on many different things from matching letter pairs to basic letter recognition, but the overall goal is understand complimentary letters by case.


Learning about upper case and lower case letters is very important for language development skills. It teaches children how to correctly use grammar and how the English language is properly written. Teaching the basics of the language such as ABC to the child can be an extremely difficult task. You have to make them understand the functions of the upper case letters and lower case letters. Here are some fun ways to help children differentiate between the two and learn how to properly use them in sentences.


Use Alphabet Charts


Children are easily attracted to anything colorful and funky. Use this interest of theirs to make them learn upper case and lower case letters. Attach large charts of alphabets onto the walls so that they see and notice it all the time. Make one for upper case letters and make another one for lower case letters.


Use Sounds While Teaching


When you are just starting to introduce the child to letters, make sure the child learns sounds of those letters side by side. Make sure the child learns that the sound of both upper case letters and lower case letters are the same. Teach the child that both are the same, but written differently for different purposes.


Make Them Write


Children love and enjoy the activity of writing. Writing also helps them remember the concepts more easily. To make them understand the difference between upper case and lower case letters, you can make them write both on different papers. For a more interesting activity, you can ask the child to draw the letters with salt on a paper. You can ask them to write the upper case letter first on a separate page and then the lower case letter on another paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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