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Writing Center Printables

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Centers, Pre-Writing Skills

Why do people write? These printables for your Pre-K Writing Center will help teach children the purposes for writing. People write to send messages on greeting cards and post cards, and people write for fun when they fill in crossword puzzles.

Writing Center Printables for Pre-K Kids

Pre-writers can have fun spelling out their name with the Pasting Letters, and practice fine motor skills with the Dot-to-Dot page. Find more writing printables here at Pretend Play Writing Printables.

You can print and copy these on a copy machine, or save paper by laminating them to use with dry erase markers.

Alphabet Letters for Pasting

Make copies of these letters on white or colored paper and cut them out. (You could also let the children cut them.) Children use these letters in the Writing Center to spell out their names and other words by gluing them on their paper.

Alphabet Letters

Download: Alphabet Letters

Greeting Cards

Print and fold these greeting cards to place in the Writing Center. Children use them to decorate and practice writing. These cards cover major U.S. holidays as well as birthday cards that you can use all year. Each card has a small symbol at the top to help non-readers identify which holiday the card represents, but there is plenty of space for the children to decorate the card themselves.

Greeting Cards

Download: Greeting Cards

Post Cards

Print and cut apart these post cards. Cardstock paper would be the ideal paper for post cards, however regular copy paper is fine and costs less. Show children examples of post cards so they understand the purpose of writing and sending them, as well as how they look. Point out the picture on the front and the areas for writing the address and a message on the back. Have children practice writing on the back and decorate the front by drawing a picture.

postcards

Download: Post Cards

Crosswords

Print these crosswords to place in your Writing Center. These are special Pre-K crosswords! Some children may choose to write out their name in a row of blocks, but otherwise, all they have to do is write letters in the white squares. They will feel so grown up filling in a crossword puzzle! Show them a real crossword puzzle from a newspaper and explain how grown ups use them. I made the squares gray so these sheets won’t use too much ink from the copy machine. You can also choose between the shaded gray squares or the striped gray squares, depending on your preference and/or your copy machine. The striped squares will use less ink. There are 3 different puzzles with squares in different places on each.

crossword

Download: Crossword {Striped}
Download: Crossword {Shaded} 

Dot-to-Dot

In this Pre-K Dot-to-Dot activity, children draw lines from one dot to another, and continue drawing lines up, down, and across until their page is filled with lines. Drawing lines from dot to dot helps children build fine motor skills. If you would like to print smaller Dot-to-Dot cards, follow the directions here to print the size you want.

Dot-to-Dot

Download: Dot-to-Dot

I hope these printables help your Pre-K students build writing skills while having fun! Find more Pre-Writing Activities here.

Graphics Credits:
Letters: Dancing Crayon Designs
Markers: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs

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26 Comments Tagged With: Literacy Printables

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  1. Ria says

    November 18, 2014 at 1:29 pm

    Thank you very much Karen. I appreciate you and all you do to help us in the classroom. The children enjoy a better learning experience because of the things you share with us. God Bless you

    Reply
  2. Lee Nora says

    November 18, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    Great ides for writing card, thank you for all you do.Enjoy your website.

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  3. Sara Schultz says

    November 18, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Thank you, these are all wonderful.

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  4. Anne Porretta says

    November 18, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    Thanks for your wonderful and creative contributions to the pre-kinder community! Much appreciated by teachers and students alike.

    Reply
  5. Nona says

    November 18, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    I love to have more to add to our writing center. My preschool students love using rubber band writing books, write the room forms (for letter of the week), and stationary (letter of the week pictures). This will be a wonderful addition to their center.

    Reply
  6. Rebekah says

    November 18, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    these look so great! thanks so much – I am always looking for some new activities for the writing center 🙂

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  7. Veronica says

    November 18, 2014 at 5:11 pm

    Just wanted to say thank you. Whenever I am fresh out of ideas..there you are. Your hard work and ideas are sincerely appreciated!

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  8. ana maria gonzález says

    November 18, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    That’s great to know about all your ideas. Thanks a lot for helping us -the teachers.

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  9. Alma says

    November 18, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks for sharing and helping us 🙂

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  10. Amy says

    November 18, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    These are wonderful! My kiddos will love them!

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  11. Judy says

    November 18, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    Thanks for the writing center ideas. This saves me a lot of work. I appreciate you!!!

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  12. Lori says

    November 18, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    Thanks so much for sharing. This is great help for me.

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  13. Pamela says

    November 18, 2014 at 10:36 pm

    I so appreciate you. Thank you for sharing.

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  14. sajlaa** says

    November 19, 2014 at 4:25 am

    Thanks a lot for helping me , thank you for all you do These are wonderful , Great ides for writing.

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  15. Angie says

    November 19, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    Thank you so much for the resources you provide. That is so helpful for me.

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  16. ROSEMARY says

    November 20, 2014 at 7:18 am

    LOVE THIS!

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  17. Laurie Hoecherl says

    November 20, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Thank you for all the wonderful writing ideas. Writing is one of the early literacy skills for children to get ready to read. I’m planning on using some of these suggestions for my storytimes at the library. Often times it is hard to come up with activities for writing but Karen has!

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  18. Carole Santarsiere says

    November 20, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    Your writing center printables are just wonderful. Thank you so much!

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  19. Ale Jimenez says

    November 22, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    I loooveee them, thak you so much, it will help me a looot!! n.n

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  20. angela says

    December 16, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    great ideas! I love them. Even though it is kind of late, I will set up a toy shop in my class. I only have a ‘make-your-own card shop’ i will add the toy shop for a while. Then, it will be a grocery store. with few changes, this shop center can be changed to accommodate seasons, holidays, or just places in our community, including shopping stores, bank, florist, etc.Thanks a lot. Happy holidays, Karen!!

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  21. Pauline says

    January 3, 2015 at 1:43 am

    Thanks again Karen. So, so glad I found your site.
    I’m glad I have the time to wander at leisure 🙂

    Wish you were around when my kids were young.
    Bitd I had to used carbon paper to reproduce lots
    of dot2dot lines for practicing their names, shapes etc.

    Keep up the good work.

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  22. Dorothy Cownley says

    January 15, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    Thanks so much Karen. These are wonderful teaching aids, especially as we start our new school year this month. Regards, Dorothy

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  23. Immacula says

    November 19, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    I just love your websites! Thank you so much for all of your free stuff.

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  24. Sukhraj Kaur says

    March 1, 2017 at 11:03 am

    Thank you so much for sharing new ideas. These will help me.

    Reply
  25. Mary Taimanglo says

    May 3, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    Hi Karen,
    Love, Love, Love your website, I find it very helpful..Can I print the Pre-K Summer Packet for my parents to have for summer activities?

    Reply
  26. Torika says

    April 4, 2020 at 5:46 am

    Thank you so much for sharing your resources. Especially at this lockdown period that we are currently in.

    Reply

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