Cursive Practice Worksheets

This is a first cursive book for a child learning letter shapes. Every one of the 52 letter pages shows a large letter, a numbered circle for the pencil start and arrows along the stroke. Each loop is drawn up its front side and down its back side, and an arrow set beside the line means retrace that part. Letters such as t, x and H take more than one stroke, and the page says how many. Below are four writing rows: two of gray letters fading from dark to light, one with a single gray letter, and one empty. The rest of the 58 pages are two letter charts, a page of blank lines and a contents page with tiles that link to each letter. The font is Playwrite US Trad, so a school may teach some shapes differently.

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What's included

  • Cursive-Alphabet-Tracing-Letter.pdf, 58 pages
  • Cursive-Alphabet-Tracing-A4.pdf, 58 pages
  • Start-Here-Cursive-Alphabet.pdf, which file to use, print settings

How it works

  1. Twelve thumbnails of letter pages, a, e, f, g, k, r and A, B, G, J, Q, Z, each with a big cursive letter and trace rows.
    Lowercase and uppercase Thumbnails of lowercase and uppercase letter pages, each with a big letter and rows of gray trace letters.
  2. A Lowercase k page with a print k, a large cursive k with a numbered start circle and arrows, and three rows of k to trace and write.
    Where to start Lowercase k with a numbered start circle and arrows up the front of the loop and down the back. The page says it takes one stroke.
  3. Three writing rows with gray cursive g: two rows fading from dark to light, one row with a single g, and empty lines below.
    Rows that fade Two rows of gray g from dark to light, one row with a single g and one empty row.
  4. Two letter pages side by side, lowercase x with 2 numbered strokes and uppercase F with 3 numbered strokes.
    More than one stroke Lowercase x with 2 strokes and uppercase F with 3, each stroke numbered in order.
  5. A lowercase letter chart with a numbered start circle on each letter, next to a contents page with a grid of letter tiles.
    Charts and contents A lowercase letter chart with start points, and a contents page with a tile for each letter.

Compatibility and file formats

Print PDF. Page sizes in the files: US Letter 612 x 792 pt and A4 595 x 842 pt. A script confirmed the sizes, that the fonts are embedded and that no ink falls within 0.25 inch of the page edge. Test printing on a real printer has not been recorded for this file.

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Questions

What age is it for?

It has no age printed on it. It suits a child learning cursive letters for the first time. For joined words, see the Cursive Writing book in this shop.

Is the stroke order the official one?

There is no single official order. It follows common school cursive: loops go up the front and come down the back, E is one stroke and H is two. It was written for this font, and another school's order may differ.

Printer and paper are not included. These are practice pages, not lessons, and they make no promise about handwriting results. Digital files cannot be returned once downloaded; if a file does not open or a link is broken, send a message through Etsy. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file. AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the words and sentences, the stroke order and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: that all 52 letters are present in order, the stroke count and numbers on each page, that arrows are drawn, the arrow directions on 17 letters (the loops of b, f, h, k, l and S, where I and J start, the entry strokes of i, j, t, u and w, the retrace arrows on a, d and u, one stroke for E and two for H), that no two number circles overlap, that the trace letters fade, the letter tiles and links, overflow and ink near the page edge. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.