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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 1 of 12

Letter Partners

Match big and small letters

What your child practices

Matching capital (big) letters with their lowercase (small) partners, including look-alikes such as b, d, p and q.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Reading 1 · knowing the upper- and lowercase letters

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Every letter has a big letter and a small letter.
  2. Some partners look alike, like O and o.
  3. Some look different, like E and e. Look closely!

Example: Which small letter matches B? B is the big letter. Its small partner is b. Answer: b

Letter Partners in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 1 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, before First Sounds.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Maine Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Find the small letter that matches.

    Z
    • u
    • d
    • z

  2. Question 2

    Find the small letter that matches.

    A
    • a
    • m
    • h

  3. Question 3

    Find the small letter that matches.

    Q
    • w
    • o
    • q

  4. Question 4

    Find the small letter that matches.

    G
    • w
    • g
    • v

  5. Question 5

    Find the big letter that matches.

    v
    • D
    • J
    • V

  6. Question 6

    Find the big letter that matches.

    o
    • C
    • W
    • O

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