Letter A Worksheets

Here is a basic page layout with a right sidebarThis page contains a range of letter a worksheets to help your child increase their familiarity with the first letter of the alphabet.

Letter A Worksheets

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Worksheets are great tools to help children learn new concepts and then reinforce them. However, we don’t recommend that you simply cycle through each worksheet one-by-one: your most important job is to ensure your child associates reading with fun and working through a series of worksheets will most likely have the opposite effect.

Instead, we suggest you pick and choose a worksheet when the time is right. For example, your child might be confident at sounding out simple words such as ‘sat’ and ‘cat’, but might be struggling with words like ‘cake’ and ‘plate’. In this instance, the ‘Long a’ sound worksheet would be ideal to help you teach your child the different sound ‘a’ makes when it is followed by a consonant and then an e.

Once your child has mastered each of the reading worksheets make sure you spend time reading some new books with them – ideally books which will give them an opportunity to practice their new skill.

Alphabet Worksheet - Handwriting Capital Letter A

Tracing Letters - Upper case A

This letter A worksheet gives your child lots of opportunities to practice writing capital a.
Alphabet Worksheet - Handwriting Lowercase Letter a

Tracing Letters - Lower case a

This worksheet focuses on the lower case letter a – mastering this shape will also be very helpful for your child when they write any of the letters which contain round shapes (b, o and g etc).
Preschool Worksheet Letter A

Letter A Worksheet - Preschool

This worksheet gives your child an introduction to the most basic sound that ‘a’ makes, and also allows them to practice writing the capital and lower case letter a. Once your child is able to recognise the simple sound made by ‘a’, they will be on their way to being able to sound out simple words like bat and mat.
Long 'A' Sound Worksheet

Long A Sound Worksheet

Learning the effect that a vowel, consonant and an e has on the way the vowel is pronounced is one of the most important steps in learning to read. This worksheet introduces your child to this concept, and with your help they should soon be able to recognise the difference between mat and mate, rat and rate and plan and plane etc.

AR Sound Worksheet

The presence of an ‘r’ after an ‘a’ changes the way the a is pronounced. This occurs quite often in English and learning this rule will increase your child’s reading vocabulary.
AI Sound Worksheet

AI Sound Worksheet

This worksheet introduces your child to the effect an i after an a has on pronunciation – for example, note the different pronunciations of these word pairs: am and aim, ran and rain and mad and maid.

AY Sound Worksheet

Quite a lot of words in English contain the ‘ay’ construct – for example, bay, say, today, and play – so knowing how to read it will be another boost for your child.
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Letter & Alphabet Resources

Letter A Song – try using our Letter A Song. It is a fun educational video set to music that demonstrates the Letter A phonics sound.

Alphabet Chart – the alphabet chart consists of all the letters with a picture corresponding to the phonic sound they make. The chart is a great tool to teach the alphabet to your child.

Alphabet Songs – try using these alphabet songs that we’ve compiled that are freely available on youtube.

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