Letter D Dot Painting: Pictures and Letter Forms

Explore D and d with dinosaur, doughnut, dolphin and dog dot-painting pages, additional letter activities and open dot grids.
Year groups
Nursery–Reception (Early Years), Year 1 (Key Stage 1)
Pages
11
File type
PDF

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject
Art, Phonics, Creative Arts, Language Development, English
Resource types
Crafts
England expectations
Official curriculum expectation · Word reading

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Letter D Dot Painting is a 10-page dot painting activity that helps Nursery (Early Years) and Year 1 students learn letter recognition, letter sounds, creativity, and fine motor skills. Students will dot paint pictures of words that start with the letter D like a dog, dinosaur, dolphin, and doughnut. The packet also includes uppercase letter D, lowercase letter d, and a combined letter case page to dot paint. Additionally, two blank dot painting templates are provided for students to design their own D artwork. This printable PDF can be used as a literacy centre, quiet time activity, morning work, or sub plans. With simple preparation, these engaging dot painting worksheets will bring fun letter learning into your early childhood classroom or homeschool.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Connect D/d with the initial sound in the supplied picture words.
  • Make uppercase D and lowercase d on the open dot grids.

Teaching tips

  • Supply dot markers or cotton buds and paint. Use the open dot grids after the pictured letter pages.

Skills covered

  • Letter-sound matching — name the D-word pictures and connect their first sound with the letter.

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National Curriculum in England

National Curriculum in England expectations

England expectations

  • Official curriculum expectation · Word reading — respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes

Core concepts

  • Letter D
  • Initial sounds
  • Uppercase and lowercase forms

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