Why name booklets work
A child’s own name is the word they care about most. Each page in the booklet practices it a different way: tracing builds letter formation, colouring big bubble letters builds the shape of the whole name, the maze makes them read their letters in order, and cutting and gluing makes them build it themselves.
How to use the class pack
- Paste your class list, one name per line.
- Choose the pages you want in each booklet.
- Check a booklet with the arrows, then download one PDF for the whole class.
- Print and staple each child’s pages together. They come out in order, child by child.
In the Australian Curriculum
- Before schoolEarly Years Learning Framework Outcome 1: children have a strong sense of identity, and their own name is a big part of it.
- FoundationLearning that capital letters are used for names (AC9EFLA09), and forming letters using learnt formations (AC9EFLY08).
The first weeks of Foundation are about routines, names and settling in. Many schools ease Foundation children into Term 1 gradually, so a booklet each child can work through at their own pace is useful in those short first days.
A name booklet also gives you a quick early check. Watch who can find their own name, who knows its first letter, and who starts letters at the top. Those three things tell you a lot about where to begin with letters and sounds.
Summarised in our own words from the Australian Curriculum: English, Version 9.0 (ACARA) and the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, V2.0.
