Print handwriting for kindergarten, one letter at a time. The first page of a letter shows how it is made, with numbered arrows for each stroke, then gives three rows of the capital and three of the lowercase letter. The second page uses the letter in picture words and a sentence. Six free sheets for A, B and C, black and white.
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Letter ACapital A and lowercase a with numbered stroke arrows, then three rows of each: trace, trace and write, write on your own.
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Letter AThree picture words to trace (apple, ant, ax), a sentence to trace and write, a letter hunt and a box to draw in.
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Letter BCapital B and lowercase b with numbered stroke arrows, then three rows of each: trace, trace and write, write on your own.
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Letter BThree picture words to trace (bee, ball, bus), a sentence to trace and write, a letter hunt and a box to draw in.
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Letter CCapital C and lowercase c with numbered stroke arrows, then three rows of each: trace, trace and write, write on your own.
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Letter CThree picture words to trace (cat, cup, cake), a sentence to trace and write, a letter hunt and a box to draw in.
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The 6 free sheets and 77 more pages that are only in the workbook: the same two pages for every letter from A to Z, with the strokes that come before letters and the numbers that come after.
Each letter has two pages. Do the first page one day and the second the next.
Most free handwriting sheets print the whole alphabet on one page. That is good practice for a child who already knows the letters. A child who is learning them needs one letter at a time, and needs to be shown where the pencil starts and which way it goes. These sheets do that with a numbered arrow for every stroke.
The rows are 5/8 inch, the size used in kindergarten, with a top line, a dashed middle line and a bottom line. Capital letters touch the top line, small letters stop at the dashed line, and the letters to trace are sized to fit the rows exactly, so what the child traces is what the child should write.
The picture words on the second page start with the letter’s most common sound (apple, ant and ax for A), so the sheet works with phonics lessons too. For whole-alphabet practice see the tracing worksheets and the print handwriting worksheets. When letters are in place, the draw and write sheets move on to a first sentence.
More for writing: draw and write worksheets (kindergarten), sentence writing worksheets (grades K–1), picture writing prompts (grades 1–2), topic sentence worksheets (grades 3–5), graphic organizers for planning, grammar worksheets, and the rest of the writing printables.
Letter formation is how a letter is written: where the pencil starts, which way each stroke goes, and the order of the strokes. Children who learn it early write faster and more neatly later, because they are not drawing each letter a different way every time.
Kindergarten, and preschoolers who are ready to hold a pencil. The rows are 5/8 inch, the kindergarten size. They also suit first graders who need to relearn a few letters.
Plain print, also called manuscript or ball and stick. The letters are upright, with no slant and no tails.
Either order works. Capitals are easier to form, since they are all the same height and made mostly of straight lines. Lowercase letters are the ones children read and write most. Each sheet here teaches both forms of a letter together.
No. There is nothing to mark right or wrong. Ask the child to circle their best letter on each row.