Find and Circle the Letter Z

A big capital Z sits in a box at the top of the page. Below it is a grid of thirty-six capital letters, and nine of them are Z. Your child hunts through the grid, draws a circle around each Z, then counts them and writes the number in the box at the bottom.

The other letters were chosen because they share parts of Z: N has the same slanted line, S has a similar zigzag shape, and X, K, M, W and V are all built from diagonals. To find the real Z, children have to check for a flat line on top, one slanted line, and a flat line on the bottom. Noticing small differences like these is the kind of careful looking that later helps a child tell letters apart in print.

Draw a Z in the air together before starting and say its three parts out loud: across, slide down, across. If an N gets circled, turn the page sideways and compare the two letters.