Alphabet Directed Drawings with Shapes

These are simple directed drawings with shapes ONLY. Perfect for kindergarten students to continue gaining confidence in their drawing abilities while also practicing letter recognition, handwriting, and sentence writing. Add these directed drawings to your reading or craft centers to give your students hand on experiences.

What's included:

• 26 directed drawings with shapes only of animals
• Animals Used: ant, bat, crab, duck, elephant, frog, giraffe, horse, iguana, jellyfish, kangaroo, lion, mouse, narwhal, ostrich, pig, quail, rabbit, snail, turtle, unicorn, volture, xray, walrus, yak, zebra
• Alligator, gorilla, umbrella bird and fox have been added upon popular request. These have additional steps and are a little trickier (some you have to erase a couple lines)
• Fully editable option for Spanish/French teachers YOU NEED POWERPOINT TO USE EDITABLE OPTION

How to Use:

• Option One: Use as a reading/craft center. Students will draw the picture and practice tracing and drawing the letter
• Option Two: Use as a reading/craft center. Students will draw the picture and create a sentence to match it. Blank lines AND handwriting lines available.
• Option Three: Create student centered alphabet charts to display in classroom or take home each day
• Option Four: Print and cut directed drawings in strips. Display in a pocket chart or hang in a binder ring. Leave at a craft or writing center.

Want to have explicit instruction of how to draw people and add details like hairstyles and facial expression? This Illustration Unit is the perfect 4 week unit to set your students up for success during Writers Workshop.