Trace Press

Word tracing worksheets with pictures

Twenty first words, one a page, to print and trace. Each page has a picture of the word to colour in, the word large with numbered start dots and arrows on every letter, then rows of it in dots to trace on four-line guides, then lines to write it alone.

8.5" × 11", no sign-up. The words, in order: cat, dog, sun, bus, cup, egg, pig, bed, car, key, fish, ball, cake, moon, tree, star, book, shoe, boat, apple. They are short, everyday things a young child can name from the picture, three to five letters long, so the picture helps them read the word they are writing.

Your own words

To trace a child's name or a different list, type the words into the free tracing worksheet generator and print one page. For seasonal words with pictures, there are Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas tracing worksheets.

Selling a first words tracing book on KDP

Trace Press makes the whole book: A to Z, then these words a page each, with a matching full-wrap cover, in any of six KDP trim sizes. The button below opens it with the twenty words already typed in, for a 46-page book. Change the words, add numbers 0 to 9 or a “This book belongs to” page, and download. For the cover's size at that page count, see tracing book cover size.

A word gets a picture when Trace Press has one for it: 112 everyday words so far, such as dog, train and umbrella. A word without one gets the same page, without the picture. The outlines come from Tabler Icons, which is under the MIT licence; it allows copies to be sold. The licence text.

Free books have a small footer line and PREVIEW on the cover; $19 once removes both, for every book you make after.