Handwriting practice sheets - pre cursive letter formation

Do your learners need to practise forming letters correctly? Are you looking for ways to ensure they develop fully legible handwriting?

This resource pack provides simple pre-cursive and print handwriting worksheets; a set for each letter of the alphabet, using a pre-cursive font. Upper case letters and lower case letters are covered.

Each pre-cursive set of handwriting worksheets includes:

• a poster showing how the letter is formed that pupils can trace over
• a worksheet with words that contain the letter taught to practise letter formation
• a worksheet with handwriting lines to rehearse letter formation for lowercase letters
• a worksheet with handwriting lines to rehearse letter formation for capital letters

How could these pre-cursive and print handwriting worksheets be used in the classroom?

The worksheets could be used as part of regular handwriting skills practice or used as part of a small group or 1:1 intervention to teach the correct formation of letters before teaching cursive writing. They are ideal for setting as a homework activity, or used as teaching resources in the classroom. 

National Curriculum programme of study links

Pupils should be taught to:

Year 1

• begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place
• form capital letters

Year 2

• form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another
• write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters

This resource is part of the Essential Templates collection.
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• a poster showing how the letter is formed that pupils can trace over x 26
• a worksheet with words that contain the letter taught to practise letter formation x 26
• a worksheet with handwriting lines to rehearse letter formation for lowercase letters x 26
• a worksheet with handwriting lines to rehearse letter formation for capital letters x 26