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Below is my collection of printable and free name tracing worksheets for names beginning with the letter D.
The names come from this year’s list of most popular names.
The activity is ideal for early childhood education and handwriting practice, featuring customizable templates to enhance letter recognition, writing skills, and fine motor development for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
All worksheets are designed to be printed on A4 paper. Make sure you select “shrink to fit” in order to ensure best quality output from your printer.
License and Terms of Use: All printables are provided for non-commercial personal and classroom use only, not for resale or distribution. All rights reserved.
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If you can’t find the name you need, use my blank name tracing templates.
D Name Tracing Worksheets (32 Names)
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Can’t Find the Name you Need?
The names on this list are from the top 900 children’s names from this year.
If your child’s name isn’t in this archive, you have two options:
- The easy option is to use my blank name tracing worksheets, print the template, and write the name in yourself. You will need to write the name as a model, then the child can follow the model. If you want faint lines, consider using a soft led pencil then have the child trace over it with a darker marker.
- The harder option is to use Canva to create a name tracing worksheet. I’ve used the KG Primary Penmanship font to generate the dot letter tracing. I needed to buy a commercial license for it, but as far as I’m aware, it’s free for personal use if you have a Canva Pro account.
What to Teach Next
1. Word Families
Word families are words that share common letter endings. They’re often easy 3-letter words that children will be familiar with.
I recommend teaching word families as soon as your child can start to write words.
The uniformity and rhyming patterns in these words makes them an easy and accessible option for teaching children how to spell.
Common word families include:
- -an: can, man, fan, tan, pan, ran, plan, ban
- -at: cat, bat, hat, mat, rat, sat, flat, that
- -op: hop, mop, pop, top, cop, stop, drop, shop
- -ig: big, dig, fig, wig, pig, rig, twig, jig
- -en: hen, men, pen, ten, then, when, glen, yen
- -et: pet, jet, set, bet, wet, net, get, let
- -in: pin, win, bin, fin, kin, thin, spin, grin
- -ot: pot, hot, not, dot, lot, rot, got, shot
- -ug: bug, rug, hug, mug, tug, dug, slug, plug
- -ake: bake, cake, make, lake, take, shake, rake, fake
To help your child to learn word families, check out my hundreds of free word family worksheets on this website.
2. Sight Words
Sight words are common words children will recognize from day-to-day life. The two most common versions are the Fry set and Dolch set. While the sets differ, there’s plenty of overlap, because both sets attempt to identify the most common words in the English language, which can be taught to children to help them master reading fluency.
Check out my free resources for Fry words here and Dolch words here.
Downward Differentiation
If your child is struggling to write their name, I’d recommend two tasks.
1. Alphabet Flashcards
Firstly, grab a pack of alphabet flashcards to slowly familiarize your child with the letters in the alphabet. You can use my free set here. Print the cards out on thick cardboard or print and laminate each card to make a durable pack your children can use over and over again.
With these flashcards, there is a range of activities you could implement on a regular schedule. One would be to play games like Memory and Snap! You could also choose to shuffle the pack and spend ten minutes working through it each day with your child.
2. Individual Letter Tracing
Additionally, your child may need help to focus on one letter at a time. I’ve got over 500 letter tracing worksheets that you can work with to help familiarize your child with letters. The activities in the link above offer a range of fun activities such as coloring-in bubble letters, dot tracing to improve fine motor skills, and tracing individual letters. Each is designed specifically for pre-K learners.