Dot to Dot 11 to 20: A Teen Number Count

The count on this Kindergarten dot to dot begins at eleven. Dot 11 carries the orange ring, and the nine dots after it climb down the panel to 20, with part of the figure already drawn in grey so the child's lines complete a shape rather than build one from nothing. The strip under the panel runs 11 to 20 instead of the usual 1 to 20, which is the clue to what this page is really practising.

Teen numbers are the stretch of the count where most children slow down, and they slow down for a reason: the names stop matching the digits. Fourteen sounds like four and looks like 14, seventeen sounds like seven and looks like 17, and a child reciting from one often sails past them without ever reading them. Starting at 11 removes the run-up, so the only numbers on the page are the ones that need the work, ten of them, one after another.

Print the PDF free and ask the child to read each number out loud before drawing to it, since the naming is the difficult part rather than the drawing. If the teens are new, the 1 to 10 page builds the habit on easier ground first. The count on version keeps the same start at 11 but runs all the way to 30 and prints no outline. The number of the day page then takes a single teen number apart eight different ways.