Letter U Hunt Worksheets – Capital and Mixed-Case Grids

Hidden-letter hunts for U: students dot or colour every U in a grid of mixed letters to reveal a large U shape.
Year levels
Pre-school (Early Years), Foundation–Year 1
Pages
5
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Oct 19, 2026

Subject
Writing, Reading, English
Topic
Letterhunt, Alphabet
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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This file is a PDF. It is a Letter Hunt for the letter U. It can be used in Pre-school, Year 1, or homeschool.
Students can use crayon to colour in all the letter Us or use dobbers. Once students colour in all the Us the dots will reveal a "hidden letter U" in the Letter Hunt.

As extra practice students can write over the coloured dots to form the letter U.

Includes:

  1. Capital Letter U hunt

  2. Mix of both upper and lowercase letter U hunt

  3. Answer keys in colour

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Pick out U and u from other letters in a mixed grid

  • Recognise the capital and lowercase forms of U

Teaching tips

  • Once the hidden U appears, students can trace over the coloured dots to practise forming the letter.

Skills covered

  • Visual discrimination — scanning a letter grid to find every U

  • Case matching — marking both U and u on the mixed grid

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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 U

  • Uppercase and lowercase letters

  • Visual discrimination

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