A worksheet for where a child lives
This library covers one major city per US state, each with its own "I Live in..." tracing worksheet. Pick a state below to see its featured city, or use the interactive tool to trace any city name at all.
Why practice a place name
Learning to write the name of the city or town a child lives in is a practical, everyday skill — it shows up on school forms, mail, and introductions, right alongside a child's own name.
One city per state, for now
This collection currently features one recognizable city per state rather than every town, chosen for being widely known and easy for a child to recognize. Coverage grows over time, and any other city can already be traced using the interactive tool below.
Why the city comes before the full address
This site also has a full address and phone number worksheet for memorizing complete home safety information — but a full address is a lot to take in at once for a young child. A city or town name is a smaller, lower-pressure first step: something a child says constantly in everyday conversation, well before they're ready to recite a full street address under any circumstance.
How this fits alongside the rest of the site
City practice sits naturally alongside name tracing as a personal-information basic — a child's name, and where they live, are two of the first specific facts about themselves most children learn to write. Neither one needs to wait for full sentence-writing skills to be worth practicing.
Built for home and classroom use alike
A parent working with one child and a teacher preparing a whole class both start from the exact same worksheets here. For a classroom where students live across several different towns, the Teacher Worksheets tool generates one combined PDF with a worksheet per city from a pasted list, built on the same rendering engine as every page in this section.
Looking for a different city?
Every worksheet here can also be generated on the spot with the interactive city tracing tool, which works with any city or town name, not just the ones pre-made here.