Number tracing 11 to 20: teen numbers worksheet

Numbers up to ten are single digits, so a child writes one symbol at a time. From eleven onward every number has two digits, and the child has to place them in the right order with a sensible gap. The teens are also the point where the way we say numbers stops matching the way we write them: we say fourteen, but the first digit written is the 1 that means ten. That is why a short, focused sheet for 11 to 20 helps before moving on to a long chart.

This sheet keeps each number on its own row, so there is room to trace the digits and room to try the same number on the copy line. The preview shows how many pages you will print before you commit.

• Number 11 tracing worksheet (eleven)
• Number 12 tracing worksheet (twelve)
• Number 13 tracing worksheet (thirteen)
• Number 14 tracing worksheet (fourteen)
• Number 15 tracing worksheet (fifteen)
• Number 16 tracing worksheet (sixteen)
• Number 17 tracing worksheet (seventeen)
• Number 18 tracing worksheet (eighteen)
• Number 19 tracing worksheet (nineteen)
• Number 20 tracing worksheet (twenty)

Each page has a spelling note for the number word, an explanation of how the number is built from a ten and some ones, a counting game, and a handwriting tip written for that number.

Work in two short sessions. Start with 11 to 15, the numbers that all begin with a 1 and then a digit the child already knows from the first sheet. Leave 16 to 20 for another day. Use the slow, accurate trace rather than a race to finish. On the second day, begin with a quick review of the first five numbers on the copy lines before introducing the new ones.

• Say the number before you trace it, and say it again when you finish.
• Check the order of the digits: the 1 comes first in every teen, and the 2 comes first in twenty.
• Leave a gap about as wide as one digit between the two digits so they stay readable.
• Stop early when the child tires; a few good numbers beat a page of rushed ones.

Some teens sound alike. Thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, fifteen and fifty, sixteen and sixty, seventeen and seventy, eighteen and eighty, and nineteen and ninety differ in where the stress falls: in the teens the last syllable is stressed. Children sometimes write 31 when they mean 13 because they write the number in the order they hear the first sound. Cover the second digit and ask which digit comes first. Tracing helps because the model always puts the 1 on the left.

When 11 to 20 is steady, move to numbers 1 to 100 on the long tracing list, or try the 1 to 100 number chart, which puts every number in a grid. For a counting game, use the number path 1 to 20. A learner who is also writing a name can switch to the name tracing worksheet generator for a break from numbers.

• Number tracing 1 to 20
• Number tracing worksheet generator
• Number chart 1 to 100
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