Making this process fun and rewarding as well as education is the best way to do it and luckily, this guide will show you a broad selection of worksheets that you can use to teach your students the letter n.
This worksheet is the best place to start because it is very simple but covers both the lowercase and uppercase n. It consists of lines that have the n’s inside them to help guide the student.
They can then trace the Ns all the way down the line which will give them a strong foundation of what the n is before moving on to more challenging exercises.
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If you want your students to learn how to write in cursive which most schools do, you can present them with this worksheet next.
It works in a very similar way to the previous one, but they have to trace both the lowercase and uppercase letters cursively.
Once they have done that, they can move on to tracing the words below that incorporate the uppercase and lowercase cursive n’s which is great for teaching your students how they are used in words.
If you are interested in this worksheet, you can access it here.
This teaches them how the letter is used in words and if you like you can even let them color in the images that are placed beside the words as a hint.
This worksheet may be a bit of a challenge if they are just beginning with the letter as they also have to trace other letters in order to form the word but with a bit of help, they should be able to figure it out!
As well as teaching them how the letter functions in different words and how it sounds, since the words are placed within guidelines – it will show them what the n should look like in correlation to the other letters in the word in terms of height and length.
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There are five images on this worksheet which are laid out on the left-hand side. There are also five words on the right which are the names of these objects except they are not placed beside the correct images.
This is where the student comes in as they must draw a line from each image to the name which all start with the letter n.
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This is not only a worksheet but a bookmark as well! On the page, there are two templates in which the student can trace the letter n using the guide before coloring it in if they wish.
Below these bookmark templates, there is also a short sentence that the student is tasked to trace before writing it themselves below.
When everything has been traced and practiced on the worksheet, the bookmark templates can then be cut out with scissors and adult supervision before being used as bookmarks.
This is great because they can continue to use these bookmarks throughout their education and refer to the letter.
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You can use this worksheet more than once because it works as a kind of jigsaw puzzle. The worksheet consists of a big uppercase N which has sections within it that have guides around them for the student to cut along.
However, before they do this they need to complete the tracing exercise below which is a short sentence with space to write it again from scratch below.
After this, they can cut out the sections of the N which are then laid out on a flat surface and mixed up. They then have to arrange the pieces so that they form the original shape of the uppercase n.
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Learning how to write a letter is one thing but learning how it fits in with words is another. This is a great worksheet to give to your students as they progress through their learning.
It presents the student with three small sentences which incorporate the letter n. The student is then asked to fill in the blanks in these sentences of where the letter n should go.
You can also ask them to color in the images that are used beside the sentences to give the students a hint as to what the sentence is saying.
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Picking the letter out from a crowd of other letters is a bit like hide and seek, or I spy, and the bonus is that they are to color the N whenever they find it.
This worksheet is not that difficult, so it can be used early on or as a break as sometimes it’s nice to give the brain a slightly easier task to do after a full day of focusing.
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This worksheet is quite similar to the previous one as they have to find the n’s in a crowd of other letters, but it is a bit more challenging as the letters are much smaller and there are some musical notes thrown in to catch you off guard.
Below, there is a tracing exercise that consists of a short sentence stating the title of the worksheet which the student can trace before writing it themselves below.
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As a child, there is nothing like being able to get a bit crafty when you are learning and this worksheet is a good example of that.
It consists of three words that start with n that you must cut out and place beside the corresponding image that is on the worksheet, then if you are happy with the placement it can be glued down.
There is also a short tracing exercise below that gives instructions on how to complete the worksheet so if you have a slightly more advanced student, you can ask them to complete this first and then read the sentence as a way to know how to do the cut and paste step.
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Word searches are great fun no matter what age you are so being able to combine it with learning a new letter is a major plus.
In this word search, there are eight words that the student is tasked to find that all start with the letter N. Once they find the correct words, they are to circle them in the word search.
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There is a sentence that your students can trace that will tell them what they have to do as well as a space below where they can write the sentence themselves without any tracing lines to help them.
Then, they are to cut out the letters on the worksheet which are in little squares. After this, they are to rearrange the letters to spell out the word necklace.
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Summary
Once you have presented your students with these worksheets, they will have a lot of fun whilst they learn the letter n, but it will also be challenging enough so that they will progress quite quickly, and before you know it you’ll be moving on to the next letter!
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