About Maine
Maine is the northeasternmost US state and is famous for its rocky Atlantic coastline, lighthouses, and lobster fishing industry — more lobster is caught off Maine than anywhere else in the country. Portland, its largest city, sits on a peninsula surrounded by the ocean and Casco Bay.
This state's featured city
Portland is the city featured for Maine on this site. Trace the worksheet below, or use the interactive tool to make one for any other Maine city or town.
Using an "I Live in Portland" worksheet
Print the worksheet at full size and have the child say "I live in Portland" aloud before and after tracing it — pairing the spoken phrase with the written word helps the city name feel like a real, personally meaningful fact rather than an arbitrary word to copy.
Other states on this site
Portland is one of fifty featured cities covered here, one per state — see the full city tracing overview to browse every state's featured city, or jump directly to a neighboring state.
Pairing Maine's city with a child's own name
Practicing Portland alongside a child's own name tracing worksheet builds a small set of personal facts a child can write confidently — their name, and where they live — well before they're writing full sentences.