30 Free Letter I Worksheets

These innovative and free printable Letter I Worksheets are designed to make learning fun and engaging for kids. The activities help improve letter formation and letter identification through creative printables like mazes, I-Spy games, coloring, cut-and-paste exercises, beginning sounds, and tracing. Kids will be introduced to new vocabulary words such as ice cream, igloo, and island, laying a strong foundation for reading and writing skills.

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Letter of the Week

These letter i worksheets are the perfect resource for classrooms, homeschools, literacy centers or even as activities during the holidays. It is ideal for preschool and kindergarten students but older kids can use them as extra practice. Each activity is created to be enjoyable and educational, making learning feel like playtime while building essential literacy skills.

Kids will work on upper case and lower case identification of the letter i, beginning sounds, tracing and reading. Other centers are also targeted like fine motor skills, math and art.

Early Literacy Skills

The importance of early literacy skills are many! It can be challenging to set learning goals and see outcomes. Here are the important ones to look for after completing these worksheets:

Kids will be able to pronounce, identify and learn the vocabulary words.
By working through these pages, they’ll learn how to describe objects and things that begin with the letter ‘i’.
Improved phonemic awareness– they’ll recognize the letter i sound which will improve their reading and speech.
Differentiate between the letters from a-i.

A cover page is included to organize the worksheets, making it simple to compile them into a workbook. This keeps it neat and makes it easy for kids to follow along. You’ll find a variety of activities such as dotting the letters, tracing, and vocabulary exercises.

The pack includes pictures to color in. These will engage young minds by encouraging creativity and improving fine motor skills.

Both long and short letter i vowel sounds are included.

Activities like sorting, cutting, tracing, and finding are excellent to reinforce essential preschool skills. These tasks are hands-on whilst also focusing on developing fine motor and cutting skills, which are crucial for early childhood development.

Letter I Worksheets

Choose a letter I worksheet. Click the picture to print it out OR grab all the worksheets in one PDF printable pack at the end of this blog post!

Instructions

Print out one worksheet or the whole pack. If you have a large group, it is easier to work through one at a time.
Set up some basic supplies like color pencils, crayons, dry erase markers. Check out my supply list for more ideas.
Laminate the worksheets to reuse them! Then use dry erase markers to complete the activities.

Letter I Identification and Beginning Sound Worksheets

Learning beginning sounds is where it all begins! By improving phonetic awareness, kids will learn how to read and speak better.

Use this as a cover page if you want to bind the worksheets into a workbook. Each kid can also attempt writing their name.

Use a red and blue dot marker to fill in the upper or lowercase letters. Kids can also stamp their right and left thumb in paint and use their thumb print to fill it in as a sensory activity.

Practice the beginning sound, read the sentence and then color in the image.

This sweet treat is another chance to practice the vowel sound. Emphasize that it is a vowel sound.

bubble letter i worksheets for preschool

Fill in the bubble letters with a dot marker or circle stickers. There are also some bonus vocabulary words.

Kids can identify and practice saying the picture words out loud. Describe each picture and then color them in.

rainbow write letter i tracing worksheets

Use this page to improve letter formation and color recognition. Kids can follow the numerical directives and then practice the colors of the rainbow.

Uppercase and Lowercase Letter I Worksheets

Games are a cheat code to help the kids pay attention. Learning can be as easy as ABC!

Help this dog detective patrol and find all the uppercase letter I’s.

follow the path letter i worksheets preschool

Follow the path of the letter i to help the alien go back to its planet!

Oh Snap! We need your help to capture all the lowercase letter i photo cards.

mazes letter i worksheets for preschoolers

These mazes are fun but they also encourage kids to think outside the lines and solve problems. Use any manipulative to follow the path like pom poms, string, or draw a line.

Sort, Cut and Paste Worksheets

These pages target fine motor and cutting skills development.

letter sorting letter i preschool worksheets

Kids can cut and sort the letters. They will revise letters they’ve learnt and be introduced to some new ones. This is excellent for improving letter identification.

Trace and cut the letters. Then, paste them into the blocks to complete the words! The kids should practice saying the words before and after pasting on the letter i worksheet.

upper and lowercase sorting letter i worksheets for kindergarten

Learn the difference between the uppercase I and the lowercase i by sorting them into the correct boxes. This is also a way to describe how some fonts (just like each child’s handwriting) are different.

Hide the images in a sensory bin. Once the kids find them, identify each picture and place it in the thumbs up or thumbs down section. This helps them to also learn words that don’t necessarily start with letter i.

Letter I Tracing Worksheets

Tracing is a good way to practice writing and become familiar with letter formation. These letter i tracing worksheets for preschool help improve letter recognition and make writing easier for the kids.

color, trace letter i cut and paste worksheets

Color, trace, and find the letter i. Then trace, cut, and paste the letter i blocks in the correct spot to practice uppercase and lowercase letter i differentiation.

This shows a numbered letter formation directive which makes tracing even easier. There are also images to identify like ice, ice skates and an iguana.

is for identical preschool letter i worksheets

This page improves lowercase letter identification. Trace the letter, read the sentence, and then color in the picture of identical twins. It can be a starter conversation for discussing other concepts like symmetry!

Spin and trace the uppercase and lowercase letter I. Pair the kids up and have them take turns.

write, trace and color letter i worksheet preschool

Identify and color the images that begin with letter I. Then, practice tracing the letter.

Practice the beginning sound and vocabulary word first. Then, trace the uppercase and lowercase versions of the letter.

Practice the beginning sound and read the sentence. Then, trace the letters.

Reading and Coloring Worksheets

These reading and coloring pages also include the letter i short vowel and long vowel sounds. Kids will improve color recognition, reading fluency and beginning sounds in one activity!

letter i sound worksheets for kindergarten

Identify the pictures and then color in the ones that begin with letter i.

color, read and trace printable letter i worksheets

Color, read, and trace the word icicle. Almost every child will color it in blue but an interesting fact for kids is that water color is clear or colorless!

letter i sound worksheets for kindergarten with tracing

Color, read and trace the sentence! Ask the kids who lives in an igloo and to describe it!

coloring, reading and tracing letter i worksheet for preschool

This page is a fun way to discuss the three states of water- solid, liquid and gas! Kids will trace, color, read and have a STEM activity. You can use this Water Cycle in a Bottle activity with it!