Number Words to Twenty
Read and write number words from one to twenty
What a learner can do afterwards
- Read the word 'twelve' and identify it as 12
- Write the word form of a given number 1–20
- Match numeral cards to number word cards
The lesson
A number can be written two ways. You write 12 with digits. You write twelve with letters. Both mean the same amount.
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Try it together
Leo gets a birthday card. It says the word nine. Leo reads the letters n-i-n-e. He knows that word means 9. Today Leo turns 9.
Good to know
Two words do not follow the pattern: eleven and twelve. Learn them by heart. Most other words end in teen, like thirteen and fourteen.
Every number 1 to 20 has a word to read and write.
Watch it
Where it sits
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
Then practise
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.