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Letter Hunt Letter A

Students find uppercase A and lowercase a in letter grids, marking targets with crayons or dot markers.
Grades
Preschool–K
Pages
5
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Nov 28, 2024

Subject
ELA, Language Development
Topic
Letter A, Letter Recognition
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
Preparation
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This file is a PDF. It is a Letter Hunt for the letter A. It can be used in grades pre-k through first grade.
Students can use crayon to color in all the letter As or use dobbers. Once students color in all the As the dots will reveal a "hidden letter A" in the Letter Hunt. As extra practice students can write over the colored dots to form the letter A.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Visually distinguish the target letter (A, a) from similar-looking distractor letters within a grid.

  • Recognize and mark every occurrence of a specific uppercase and lowercase letter pair.

Teaching tips

  • Use one copy of each grid for guided practice and the second identical copy for independent or take-home practice, since the file supplies two copies of each design.

  • Model marking a few letters with a dobber or crayon on the cover page's sample before starting the timed or independent grids.

Skills covered

  • Letter recognition — students visually locate every A and a within two grids of similar-looking letters.

  • Upper/lowercase discrimination — the grids mix capital and lowercase letters, requiring students to track both forms of the target letter.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the two letter-search grids identical to each other?

No, they use two different distractor-letter arrangements; each of the two distinct grids is printed on two pages, giving four pages total rather than four unique puzzles.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • CCSS.RF.K.1d — Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet

Core concepts

  • Letter recognition

  • Uppercase and lowercase letters

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