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.
Provincial curriculum links
- BC KRecognizing familiar words and names, and linking letters with their sounds.
- BC Grade 1Capital letters for people’s names, and legible printing with spaces between letters.
- ON KThe Ontario Curriculum, Kindergarten, 2026 keeps learning through play while adding explicit early reading skills.
A child’s name is often the first word they read in a Canadian classroom: on a cubby, a coat hook and the attendance chart. The booklet turns that into tracing, colouring, a maze and building the name letter by letter, which suits the first weeks of Kindergarten and the start of Grade 1.
Ontario’s Kindergarten runs for two years, so the same booklet works as a first-week activity in Junior Kindergarten and as a quick check of name writing early in Senior Kindergarten. In BC, where Kindergarten is a single year, it fits September and again after winter break, to see how far each child has come.
Summarized in our own words from BC English Language Arts (K–1) and The Ontario Curriculum, Kindergarten, 2026.
