Back-to-School Letter Search Activity

Challenge your students to find the letters in this fun Back-to-School Letter Search Activity!

School literacy activities like this one are an engaging way for your preschoolers and kindergarteners to practice identifying letters of the alphabet.

Your students will work on recognizing letters by their shapes and matching capital and lowercase letters as they search for letters on the pencil.

Not only will your children work on letter recognition during this activity but they will develop their visual discrimination skills too.

Visual discrimination skills are important for young learners to develop because they help children to understand and process visual information.

Developing visual discrimination skills help kids to become better readers and writers. It also helps them to understand and remember what they see.

What You'll Find On This Page

Getting Ready to Use the Back-to-School Find the Letter Activity:

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What’s Included:

2 Pencil Capital Letter Search Worksheets
26 Smart Cookies Lowercase Letter Cards

What Else Is Needed:

For a reproducible activity:

White Copy Paper
Scissors
Crayons
Dot Markers

For a reusable activity:

Copy Paper
Scissors
Laminator
Laminating Pouches
Small Manipulatives

To prepare this letter recognition activity for your young learners, click on the button at the bottom of the page.

Next, download and print the worksheet that you want to use on copy paper or card stock.

Then, print the letter cards on card stock and cut them apart.

You may also want to laminate the mat and cards if your children are going to reuse this activity.

How to Use the Back-to-School Letter Recognition Activity:

For this letter hunt activity, your preschoolers and kindergarteners will select a smart cookie card and identify the lowercase letter on it.

Next, they will look for the matching capital letter on the pencil worksheet and color it with crayons or mark it with a dot marker.

If your students are using the colored worksheet, they can mark the letters by covering them with small manipulatives such as mini erasers.

If you want to differentiate this activity, check out the Back to School Letter Search Activity on TPT. Your students can work on matching capital letters to capital letters, lowercase letters to lowercase letters, capital letters to lowercase letters, or beginning sounds to capital or lowercase letters.

They will then continue to pick cards and find the letters on the worksheet or mat until they have found them all.

This Back-to-School Letter Search Activity is a fun way for your kids to practice identifying capital and lowercase letters at the beginning of the school year.