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Fourteen, 14 — and back again

A child who can count to twenty can still write "fiveteen". The teens are where number words stop following a pattern, so they get a page of their own, and every word is written on the lined paper kindergartens use for handwriting.

How it works
Ages5–7TypeMath

Read it one way, write it the other.

A number words worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. Pick the numbers — 1 to 10, the teens, or 21 to 100 — and whether the child writes digits, words, or both. Every word is written on a primary-ruled line: a solid top line, a dashed midline and a solid baseline, the paper US children learn letters on. A word bank at the top lists the words the page asks for, in counting order, and can be switched off once spelling is secure. On the 21-to-100 page no two neighbors come from the same ten, so forty-three and forty-seven never sit side by side.

Make a sheet

1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.

A Number Words sheet
1

Read

The number or the word printed in each row.

2

Find

The spelling in the word bank, if it is there.

3

Write

The digits in the box, or the word on the lined space.

Numbers

The teens get a page of their own: eleven and twelve fit no pattern, and fifteen does not keep its five.

The child writes

Words are written on primary-ruled lines, with a dashed midline, like kindergarten handwriting paper.

Number of sheets

Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.