If you’re teaching the letter B and want activities that are fun, low-prep, and grounded in the Science of Reading, you’re in the right place! This FREE Letter of the Week B Pack includes everything you need to build foundational phonics skills with your preschool, kindergarten, or early intervention students.
This printable pack targets phonemic awareness, letter formation, sound-symbol correspondence, and decodable word reading, all key areas supported by SoR research.
Today, I’ll be showing you exactly what’s included in the Letter B Packet! You’ll find resources designed for the very beginning of instruction (posters, sound sorts, and tracing cards) as well as activities that are best used once children are blending and reading decodable words, such as the Letter B Mini Book and word work printables.
No matter where your students are on their literacy journey, this pack gives you flexible, developmentally appropriate tools to meet their needs.
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What’s Included in the Letter B Packet
This 87-page pack is filled with purposeful, play-based printables designed to build foundational phonics skills and support your structured literacy routines. Here’s a closer look at what’s inside:
Posters & Flashcards
1. Letter Formation Poster
Shows how to correctly form uppercase and lowercase B, with a CVC word and image.
2. CVC Word Poster
Displays 10 decodable CVC words that begin with or include the letter B.
3. Tracing Flashcards
Upper and lowercase letter formation cards that double as posters, flashcards, or tracing tools.
4. Play Dough Mat
Designed for shaping letters with play dough while reinforcing proper formation.
5. Write and Wipe Cards
Reusable cards for children to trace uppercase and lowercase B with a whiteboard marker.
6. Letter B Tracing Mat
A mat for writing uppercase and lowercase B, one decodable word, and five CVC words.
Phonics Letter of the Week Activities
7. Vocabulary Cards + Write the Room
18 cards with B at the beginning, 9 with B in the middle or end. Includes a recording sheet for Write the Room.
8. Sound Hound Sorting Activity
Children sort words by the position of the B sound: beginning, middle, or end. Includes a worksheet.
9. Build-a-Sentence Activity
Use predictable sentence frames with B vocabulary picture cards. Includes a recording page.
Booklets & Readers
10. Alphabet Flip Book
Interactive sentence book for building fluency with decodable B words. Recording pages included.
11. Activity Mini Book
Foldable book with letter identification, beginning sound tasks, and tracing.
12. Alphabet Reader
Simple reader using common sight words and CVC words that begin with B.
13. Missing Letter Reader
Children cut and paste missing B letters into a predictable sentence frame: “Bb is for…”
14. Picture Scramble Booklet
CVC words with B are scrambled; students cut, build, trace, and write each one.
Letter Recognition Worksheets
15. Letter Maze
Color a path of uppercase and lowercase Bs from start to finish.
16. Font Discrimination Maze
Identify the letter B in a variety of fonts to build visual discrimination.
17. Hidden Letter Worksheets (2)
Color-by-code to reveal uppercase or lowercase B.
18. Beginning Sound Coloring
Color only the pictures that begin with the /b/ sound.
19. Letter Find Activity
Count and record how many uppercase and lowercase Bs are found.
Handwriting Practice Pages
20. Handwriting Pages (2 styles)
Practice tracing B using either dotted or continuous lines.
21. Letter Sort Cut and Paste
Cut, sort, and paste letters to identify uppercase and lowercase Bs.
22. Beginning Sound Sort
Trace B and sort pictures by whether they begin with the B sound.
Word Work Worksheets
23. Word Match Cut and Paste
Trace CVC words and match them to the correct pictures using cut-and-paste.
24. CVC Read-Match-Write
Match CVC words to pictures, then write them in letter boxes.
25. Homework Reading Page
Practice identifying and applying the /b/ sound at home.
26. Alphabet Reading Strips
Predictable pattern: “B is for…” sentences using CVC and picture cues.
27. Nursery Rhyme Reading Page
Trace and find all the uppercase/lowercase Bs in a familiar rhyme.
28. Build-a-Sentence Worksheets (5 pages)
Cut, arrange, and write sentences using CVC and sight words. Includes a picture to color.
Craft & Extension Activities
29. Letter B Crown
Cut-and-paste craft crown to celebrate learning the letter B.
30. Upper and Lowercase Craft Templates
Blank B templates for collages, painting, or other alphabet crafts. For craft ideas, please visit my blog at In My World: www.inmyworld.com.au/category/preschool
Well, there you have it: Phonics Letter of the Week B! This was a long post, but I wanted to show you all the pages included in this packet so that you could decide whether this packet fits in with your Literacy curriculum! To download the complete and FREE Letter B, click here or on the image below!
Happy Teaching 🙂