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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 1 of 16

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: KRF1 · 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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 1 of 16 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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.

    G
    • c
    • i
    • g

  2. Question 2

    Find the big letter that matches.

    u
    • Y
    • U
    • N

  3. Question 3

    Find the small letter that matches.

    A
    • a
    • y
    • i

  4. Question 4

    Find the small letter that matches.

    J
    • h
    • j
    • w

  5. Question 5

    Find the big letter that matches.

    z
    • V
    • Z
    • C

  6. Question 6

    Find the big letter that matches.

    m
    • M
    • P
    • Y

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