🔤 Alphabet & Letters
Trace Lowercase Letter z
Ages 4–5
🔤 Alphabet & Letters
Trace Lowercase Letter y
Lowercase y with a page to itself: the cup of u, then a line that runs below the baseline into a deep tail curling left, traced, copied and written alone.
- Suitable for
- Ages 4–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Medium
- Printing
- Black & white
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What your child practices
- Begins y on the middle line, at the top left of the cup
- Makes the cup of y the way u is made, without lifting at the top
- Takes the second line of y straight down through the baseline
- Curls the tail of y to the left along the bottom line
About this worksheet
A cup first, then a tail. This y is one stroke, so one start dot is all the model needs. It marks the top left of the cup, on the middle line, and an arrow points down from it. The pencil comes down, curves along the baseline and rises to the middle line, just as u does. Then it runs back down the same way, straight through the baseline, rounds on the bottom line and curls back up under the cup.
The tail is what gets lost. It stops at the baseline and the letter reads as u, or it curls right instead of left, or the pencil lifts at the top of the cup and the long line starts somewhere new. Nothing in the letter is new, which helps: the cup comes from u and the tail from g. Many print alphabets make y from straight lines that meet in a point, so this round one may look unfamiliar.
Give the tail a word of its own and say "cup, then dive" as it goes. Yellow, yogurt and yawn begin with y, and "yes" is the word for a tail that reaches the bottom line.
How to use this sheet
Tails need room, so check that the hand resting on the paper is not hiding the bottom line. If a tail turns right, trace the model's tail together with a finger and try the next one.
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