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Letter V worksheets and tracing
Two straight slants that meet in a point, like two leaves sticking out of a vase.
“Those aren't leaves. It's v, pretending to be a plant.”
Watch it write itself
See v write itself
It starts at the green dot and goes the way the arrows go, in the same order your child traces it. Press Slowly and follow it with a finger.
Tap V to see the capital write itself too.
On a phone or tablet, Bring it into your room puts the letter on your floor or table, through the camera. No app to install.
How to write it
How to write v and V, in words
One line for each stroke, to read aloud while your child traces. On the sheets: the top line, the dashed middle line, and the base line, where the letters sit. If your child's school uses a different style, follow the school.
Small v
- Start at the green dot on the middle line. Slant down to the right, to the base line, then, without lifting the pencil, slant back up to the middle line.
Capital V
- Start at the green dot on the top line. Slant down to the right, to the base line, then, without lifting the pencil, slant back up to the top line.
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Letter V tracing worksheets and coloring page
Five sheets for V and v: tracing the capital and the small letter, the small v only, the capital V only, a coloring page and a find every v page. US Letter and A4, black and white first, then color.
Letter V v tracing worksheet
V and v on the road with arrows, then fainter, then from the dots alone. Then the word vase.
1 page · PDF
Small v only
Four rows of v, from the road to the dots alone. Then the word vase.
1 page · PDF
Capital V only
Four rows of V, from the road to the dots alone, and a line to write on.
1 page · PDF
Letter V coloring page
A big V and v with eyes to color, and a box to draw the vase it hides in.
1 page · PDF · black and white
Find every v
A page of letters, many of them look-alikes. Color every v, then count them. The answer is upside down.
1 page · PDF · black and white
Free for home and classroom use. To pass them on, please share the link to this page and not the file. The whole alphabet at once (the ABC chart, the A to Z tracing booklet and the desk strip) is on the alphabet page.
For show and tell
Things that start with V
Everyday things a child can carry to school for letter V day. The first one is where v hides in our book.
- violina toy one
- valentinea card
- vana toy one
- vest
- vegetablesa few, in a bag
- volcanoa model you made
- velveta soft scrap of it
- vacuum cleanera toy one
The book's game, with no screen
- Print the letter. The coloring page works well: your child colors it first, then it goes into hiding.
- While nobody is looking, hide it in something that starts with its sound: in an empty vase, inside a toy van, or in the vegetable drawer.
- Say the sound together, as the book does: “v, v, v... Where can v be?” When your child finds it, they trace it with a finger and shout “Got you, little v!”
Animals
Animals that start with V
Tap one with an arrow to meet it on our dinosaur pages.
- vulture
- vole
- viper
- vampire bata small bat from Mexico, Central and South America
- vicuñaa wild cousin of the llama
- vervet monkeya monkey from Africa
- viceroy butterflyan orange butterfly that looks like a monarch
- vaquitathe smallest porpoise, from Mexico, and very rare
- Velociraptorsmall, like a big turkey, but very fast
Good to know
v or u?
v and u are both open at the top. The difference is at the bottom.
v comes to a point: two straight slants, down and up, without lifting the pencil. u is round at the bottom, and its right side goes on down to the base line.
In our book, v pretends to be two pointy leaves in a vase.
Questions
Grown-ups ask
- How do you write a lowercase v?
- Start on the middle line, on the left. Slant down to the base line, then slant straight back up to the middle line, without lifting the pencil. One point at the bottom.
- What starts with V for show and tell?
- A plastic vase (where v hides in our book), a toy violin, a valentine, a toy van, a vest, or a volcano your child made.
- What animals start with V?
- Vulture, vole, viper, vampire bat, vicuña and vervet monkey. And Velociraptor, a dinosaur as small as a big turkey, but very fast.
More letters
Our own book
Catch the Letters! A Bedtime Alphabet Book
By Katia Sunn · for grown-ups · coming soon
In the book, v hides in the vase. Your child finds it, traces it with a finger, and catches it. Every letter hides somewhere in the house, inside a thing that starts with its sound.
Every letter page has a code: scan it with a phone or tablet and the letter comes into your room.