French Writing – A to H

💡Tips for Parents

▸ Why It Matters This first group covers A through H, and right away it introduces É — the first of several accent marks your child will meet across the French alphabet, and an early signal that French spelling carries information beyond just the letter shapes English uses. As the opening worksheet in a three-part series covering the whole French alphabet, this one matters more than its nine letters suggest: the pencil habits your child builds here — how they hold the pencil, how they approach a new curve or accent — are the habits that carry them through every worksheet that follows. Getting comfortable with one accent now, while it's the only new thing to track, makes the next installment's è, ê, and ç feel like small additions rather than a fresh mountain to climb. ▸ Getting Started Before your child picks up the pencil, have them trace a few letters in the air with a finger first, so the motion is in their arm before it has to be precise on paper — this helps especially with letters like C and G, which curve opposite to how many children first try to draw them. Encourage a relaxed, three-finger pencil grip rather than a tight fist, since a tense grip tires out quickly and makes shaky letters more likely. Work through A to H at a steady, unhurried pace, and only when your child reaches É should the pace slow down — treat the accent as a completely separate, deliberate stroke, added only after the letter body underneath is finished, never as part of the same motion as the E itself. ▸ If They Get Stuck If a letter's basic shape is giving trouble — a backwards E, a lopsided C — go back to tracing it in the air or with a finger on the table before returning to the pencil; separating the motion from the pressure and precision of actual writing often unlocks a shape that felt impossible on paper. If the accent on É keeps coming out backwards or floating in the wrong spot above the letter, have your child practice the accent mark completely on its own a few times first — it's just a short diagonal line rising from lower-left to upper-right — before adding it above a freshly written E, so they're not trying to solve two problems in the same stroke. ▸ Praise Points Praise the accent mark specifically, even when it comes out a little crooked, since remembering it at all is the harder half of the job: "You didn't forget the little mark on top of the É — that's the exact detail that changes how a word sounds in French, and lots of grown-ups learning French forget it too."

🎯What This Worksheet Builds

Traces and forms the first nine letters of the French alphabet, A through H plus the accented É, focusing on correct stroke direction and the accent mark placement.

👉Next Step

Once these letters feel comfortable, continue to French Writing – I to Q to keep building through the alphabet.