Word Shapes! Word shape worksheets are useful for teaching students how to form letters correctly, how to place letters in a word properly relative to each other and to the baseline, and for spelling practice. For students who are just beginning to learn to write, simple worksheets present a word that can be copied directly into an adjacent word shape. A more advanced 'Word Shape Puzzle' requires students to match a scrambled list of words to their shapes. Both types of worksheet can be created using the word shape abctool. Here is a list of samples: In the directory below, you will find many free word shapes you can print and use at home or in the classroom! Adobe Acrobat is required to view and print our word shapes. Advanced word shape creation for members: - Create your own word lists
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Word Shapes Activities |
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| Word Shape: "old" words |
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| Word Shape: confusable th words |
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| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 2 letter words (set 1) |
go, he, at, am, an |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 1) |
bad, bye, cute, ban, put, see, bay, add |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 1) |
crib, bean, slam, calf, bark, same, plan, wake |
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Description |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 5 letter words (set 1) |
color, black, brown, eight, funny, green, house |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 9) |
blue, down, four, girl, help, here |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 8) |
till, card, date, grab, rain, desk, than, flag |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 7) |
hard, bike, pain, okay, belt, crab, just, near |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 6) |
care, tent, cash, stay, bath, paid, trip, year |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 5) |
both, cage, many, deer, dark, west, pill, case |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 4) |
wide, sell, brim, mess, page, read, what, beat |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 3) |
bend, week, dare, them, silk, rely, easy, main |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 2) |
neat, race, beak, bear, glad, chat, milk, made |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (set 10) |
away blue come draw five good have |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 9) |
pad, rag, net, ran, pay, hat, lip, fin |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 8) |
sew, fit, hug, gas, mat, cry, ham, jet |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 7) |
get, rug, sit, guy, did, fog, die, ice |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 6) |
but, dry, gap, dew, got, ray, wet, man |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 5) |
gag, bit, dig, bus, ski, age, met, now |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 4) |
gym, bet, bug, raw, bin, she, odd, art |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 3) |
Match the words with the box patterns: mad, beg, fly, bat, bar, all, yet, row |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 2) |
run, jam, hot, lap, dam, job, end, say |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 13) |
big, did, for, has, hat, him |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 12) |
and, are, can, get, had, her |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 11) |
all, boy, car, cat, dog, eat |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (set 10) |
sew, fit, hug, gas, mat, cry, ham, jet |
| Worksheet: Word Shapes - 2 letter words (set 2) |
do, it, is, in, be |
| Cut and Paste: Word Shapes - 5 letter words (blank) |
Cut and paste letter tiles into these five-letter word shapes. |
| Cut and Paste: Word Shapes - 4 letter words (blank) |
Cut and paste letter tiles into these four-letter word shapes. |
| Cut and Paste: Word Shapes - 3 letter words (blank) |
Cut and paste letter tiles into these three-letter word shapes. |
| Cut and Paste: Letter Tiles (ZB-Style Font) color |
Cut and paste these letter tiles into the word shapes. |
| Cut and Paste: Letter Tiles (ZB-Style Font) b/w |
Cut and paste these letter tiles into the word shapes. |
| Cut and Paste: Letter Tiles (DN-Style Font) -color |
Cut and paste these letter tiles into the word shapes. |
| Cut and Paste: Letter Tiles (DN-Style Font) -b/w |
Cut and paste these letter tiles into the word shapes. |
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