Printable workbook · Ages 3 to 5

Pre-K Tracing Book

Tracing for children who are not ready for letter rows yet. Every line to trace is part of a picture, so the pencil always has somewhere to go: a path home, rain from a cloud, the sail of a boat.

Lines and curves in the order small hands can make them: down, across, circles, crosses, slants, then hops, waves, zigzags, loops and spirals
Thick dashes, a big start dot on every line and an arrow where it stops
Shapes, roads to stay inside, and ten big pictures to trace and color
Giant letters A to Z and numbers 1 to 10, one a page, with numbered stroke arrows
One 79-page PDF, black and white to print and color

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Look inside

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Pre-K Tracing Book, paths to follow — **Paths to follow**Every line takes a friend somewhere.

Pre-K Tracing Book, lines down — **Lines down**Rain from the clouds, then their own.

Pre-K Tracing Book, circles — **Circles**Bubbles for the fish, then dots only.

Pre-K Tracing Book, triangles — **Triangles**A sail for every boat.

Pre-K Tracing Book, stay on the road — **Stay on the road**No dashes: a road that gets narrower.

Pre-K Tracing Book, shapes — **Shapes**Squares, triangles and circles make a house.

Pre-K Tracing Book, trace the picture — **Trace the picture**Go over the gray lines, then color.

Pre-K Tracing Book, giant letters — **Giant letters**A to Z with stroke arrows and a picture.

How it works

Every letter is made of a few strokes: lines down and across, circles, slants and curves. Children learn them in about that order, so the book does too, one kind of stroke a page. Each page starts with lines to trace and ends with one the child makes alone from dots: the last cloud's rain, the last block, the last bubble.

Lines: 18 pages, from straight rain to loops and snail-shell spirals, each one part of a picture.
Stay on the road: no dashes at all. The child draws down the middle of a road that gets narrower.
Shapes: circles, squares, triangles and rectangles, then a house and a train built from them.
Trace the picture: ten big, simple pictures in light gray to go over and color.
Giant letters and numbers: a bubble letter with a dashed path down the middle, numbered stroke arrows, a picture, and a row to trace. Then a certificate.

When the giant letters are easy, the Print Handwriting Workbook teaches every letter at writing size. The file is yours to keep: print any page as often as you need.