Letter A Coloring Page
A is for apple. Print the capital and lowercase together as big hollow letters to colour in, or one at a time. Choose the letter style, the outline thickness and the doodles, then print. Free, no account, no watermark.
Letter
Aa
is for Apple
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Letter style
Outline thickness
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A is for Apple
Tip: print the capital and lowercase together while a child is learning that they are the same letter. Switch to one at a time once that has landed.
Teaching the Letter A
The sound it makes
Short "a" as in apple and ant, which is the sound to teach first. The long "a" that says its own name, as in acorn, comes later.
How the letter is formed
Start at the top of the round part, go anticlockwise all the way round to close the circle, then a straight line down the right side.
What it gets confused with
Handwritten "a" has a single storey; most printed fonts use a two-storey "a" that children never write. The School letter style here uses the single-storey form on purpose.
Words that start with A
A is usually the first letter a child meets, so it is worth colouring slowly. The capital has three straight lines and a triangle in the middle, which is a good early lesson in colouring an enclosed shape a different colour from what surrounds it.
Colouring a letter is not handwriting practice, and it is not meant to be. What it does is buy time: a child spends ten quiet minutes with the shape of Aa in front of them and comes away recognising it, which is the step that has to happen before a pencil is any use. When they are ready to form the letter themselves, the handwriting worksheet generator builds a tracing sheet for A with the guide lines in the right places.
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