Letter S Cut and Paste Worksheets

Three worksheets pair a cut-and-paste beginning-sound sort with capital-and-lowercase letter-S recognition against look-alike distractor letters.
Year levels
Foundation, Pre-school (Early Years)
Pages
3
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PDF
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Updated Nov 07, 2023

Subject
Phonics, Language Development, English
Topic
Alphabet Activities, Alphabet Worksheets
Resource types
Worksheets
Preparation
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Australian Curriculum content descriptions
AC9EFLY11 — recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common…

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These cut and paste worksheets for the letter S are great for letter recognition and beginning sounds. They are a quick and easy activity to give students who need practice with recognising the letter S from amongst other letters or for those students who need extra practice distinguishing between the initial sounds in words. It is a great resource for students to practise recognising the letter, or to evaluate students on their knowledge of the letter and its sound at the beginning of words.

These cut and paste worksheets are perfect for Early Years and Foundation children who are working on identifying the most common initial /s/ sound in words as well as students who are learning to recognise the letter S in both capital and lowercase form.

There are 3 different worksheets for students to use to practise the letter S

  • Sorting letters that are the letter S from letters that are not the letter S

  • Cut and paste page where students will glue the pictures that begin with the letter S on the sun.

  • Sorting page where students will look through various forms of print and cut out examples of the letter and sort by capital letters and lowercase letters.


These alphabet worksheets can be used in the following ways

  • Literacy centres

  • Fine motor skills centres

  • Small group activities

  • Homework

  • Morning work

  • Relief plans


Skills assessed with these letter S worksheets

  • Letter S Recognition

  • Initial Sound of the letter S

  • Cutting skills

  • Fine Motor Skills


Two of the worksheets are print and go. You only need to add scissors and glue. The other worksheet is low prep, as you need to gather printed materials for students to cut out examples of the letters in addition to scissors and glue. Students can work together or alone to complete the magazine cut and paste page.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify the capital and lowercase forms of the letter S among distractor letters.

  • Recognise pictures whose names begin with the /s/ sound.

  • Practise cutting and pasting to complete a picture or letter sort.

Teaching tips

  • Two of the three worksheets are print-and-go; only scissors and glue are needed to complete them.

  • Use the two sorting pages back to back as a quick recheck of letter-S recognition before moving to independent writing practice.

  • The name line on each page makes the set easy to file into a work folder or rotate through a literacy centre.

Skills covered

  • Letter recognition — students tell capital and lowercase S apart and separate S from look-alike letters such as M, Z and p.

  • Beginning-sound identification — students select and glue pictures whose names start with the /s/ sound onto a sun outline.

  • Fine motor skills — cutting small picture and letter pieces and pasting them into a target sort.

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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

  • AC9EFLY11 — recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents

Core concepts

  • Letter recognition

  • Beginning sounds

  • Uppercase/lowercase sorting

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