Published Nov 8, 2026
Color: star, scissors, sock, snail. Leave white: alligator, boot, mug, box.
Made with the help of AI from public curriculum standards, then checked. Mistakes can slip through, so please look it over before use. Found one? Tell us and we will fix it.
Children learn letters faster when the shape, the name and the sound are practiced together. Coloring the large S and s gives your child time to notice that the two forms look almost the same, just different sizes. The picture task is listening work: your child says each name and decides whether it starts with /s/, the snake-like hiss. Tracing the letters on writing lines at the bottom connects the sound to the pencil movement used later for writing.
Head Start ELOF P-LIT 3: Naming many letters and knowing some of their sounds
Head Start ELOF P-LIT 1: Noticing rhyming words and the sound a word starts with
Short descriptions in our own words. About our standards.
Say each picture name slowly and stretch the first sound, as in sssun. Watch for pictures whose names begin with the same letter but a different sound; this page avoids them, but your child may still guess from the first letter of a word they know. When tracing, start S at the top and curve left, like a snake going backwards.
Easier: Name each picture for your child first and let them repeat it. For the tracing row, hold their hand over the pencil for the first two letters.
Harder: Ask your child to think of three more /s/ words, like sun or sandwich, and draw one in the margin. Then try writing s without the dotted guide.
Color: star, scissors, sock, snail. Leave white: alligator, boot, mug, box.
It is made for Pre-K (ages 4-5). The level is ★ easy, so it works well as a first practice page.
About 15 minutes. Young children can do it in two short sittings with a break in between.
On the second page of the PDF and on this page under Show the answer key. To print for a whole class, print only the first page of the PDF.
Head Start ELOF P-LIT 3 (naming many letters and knowing some of their sounds); Head Start ELOF P-LIT 1 (noticing rhyming words and the sound a word starts with).
Yes. Print as many copies as you need for your own children or students. Please do not resell it or upload it to other websites.
