Number 19 Tracing Worksheet (Nineteen)

How to write 19

Write the 1. For the 9, start at the top right of the small loop and go round anticlockwise to make the head, then pull a straight line down from the right side to the bottom. A 9 is a balloon on a string.

Ten and nine

With nineteen, the right ten frame has only one empty square. Ask: what happens if we add one more counter? The frame fills up, and we have two tens, twenty. It is a lovely way to see why the numbers go 19, then 20.

What to watch for

The 9 is easy to reverse into a P or turn upside down into a 6. If that happens, draw a balloon with a string next to it and trace the 9 over the balloon shape together.

Counting idea for nineteen

Fill a jar with nineteen buttons and ask your child to guess how many before counting. Then count them into groups of ten. Guessing first and checking after builds a sense of how big numbers look.

Game: Nineteen, almost there!

Play a counting race to twenty. Take turns adding one or two blocks to a tower and saying the new total. Whoever lands on nineteen shouts “almost there!”, and whoever puts on the twentieth block wins the round.

Where you see 19

Nineteen on a sports shirt, a house number or the 19th page of a story, and the count right before twenty in hide-and-seek.

Practise next

Try number 18 and number 20, then check your counting on the free number charts.