Quick Answer

Name Recognition Homework helps families practice name recognition with a quick game using three homemade name cards. Children find their name, compare it with a teacher-written model, and try again after the cards are mixed up. Send it home for an individual learning goal or use it with your whole class.

What’s Included

• Teacher cover: directions for preparing the name model, using the activity, and noticing progress

• Keep-at-home page: family directions, a “Did You Know?” paragraph, and three practice checkboxes

• Return-slip version: the same activity with a tear-off slip for the child’s name, date, and family signature

• A roomy space for an adult to write the child’s name

• Simple ways to make the game easier or add a little more challenge

How to Use

Choose the family version you want to send home. Write the child’s name in the model space using the spelling and capitalization taught at school. Families copy it onto one card and write two other familiar names on two more cards.

The child finds their name, then the adult mixes the cards and invites them to try again. Start with two cards if needed. When the child is ready, cover the model or include another name with the same first letter.

Families check a box after each of three short practices. They keep the activity page and return only the signed slip when included.

Preschool Vibes Standards

4D. We can recognize our name and familiar environmental print (as appropriate).

File Details

Digital download: 3-page printable PDF. Print at Actual Size (100%) on 8.5 × 11-inch paper. Fill in the name model by hand. Families need three small pieces of paper and a marker.