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Classroom Posters & Charts

Free printable alphabet, number, shape and colour sets. Print the whole set as one reference chart, or one item per page as posters for a display. Letters and numbers print hollow by default so the class can colour them in.

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Four steps

How to print classroom posters

  1. 1

    Pick the set

    Alphabet, numbers, shapes or colours.

  2. 2

    Chart or posters

    Chart for a desk, posters for a display frieze.

  3. 3

    Keep outline on

    Saves toner and lets the class colour them.

  4. 4

    Print on card

    Anything staying up all year is worth laminating.

A display the class made

Outline letters are not just a toner saving, though they are that too. A frieze the children coloured is looked at differently from one that appeared overnight, and colouring twenty-six letters is a genuinely useful quiet activity in the first week of term.

Why the colours are not printed in colour

A printed colour swatch is only as good as the cartridge behind it. A red that comes out pink, or a yellow that barely registers, teaches the wrong thing while looking authoritative on the wall. Naming the colour and leaving the box empty is both honest and an activity, and the result matches whatever medium the class actually uses.

Shape posters that are correct

Each shape is drawn as a true regular polygon rather than a hand-approximated one, and each carries its side and corner count. That second part is where printed posters often go wrong: a five-pointed star has ten sides and ten corners, and a poster claiming five is teaching something that has to be unlearned during the first counting lesson.

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Banner letters spell out any message one letter per page, classroom labels make desk tags, and alphabet tracing is the writing practice that goes with the alphabet poster.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Because a printed swatch is only as accurate as the printer, and a washed-out red from a low cartridge teaches the wrong thing. The colour posters print an outlined box with the colour named, meant to be coloured in with the actual medium the class uses. The result is accurate and the class made it.

A chart puts the whole set on one page, which suits a desk, a folder or a working wall at eye level. Posters give one item per page, which is what a display border or an alphabet frieze above the board needs. Both come from the same set.

Toner and involvement. A solid letter filling a page uses close to a full page of ink, and twenty-six of them is noticeable. Hollow letters use a fraction, and they can be coloured in, which turns putting up a display into an activity the class did rather than something that appeared overnight.

Each shape drawn as a true regular polygon, with its name, side count and corner count. The counts matter: a five-pointed star has ten sides and ten corners, not five, and a poster that says otherwise is teaching a mistake that has to be undone later.

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