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Letter formation worksheets – Cursive handwriting practice sheets

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Do your learners need to practise forming letters correctly? Are you looking for ways to ensure they develop fully legible handwriting? This letter formation worksheets pack contains simple cursive handwriting worksheets.

There's a set for each letter of the alphabet, using a cursive font. The worksheets cover both upper case letters and lower case letters.

Letter formation worksheets contents

  • Poster showing how to form the letter that pupils can trace over
  • Worksheet with words that contain the letter taught to practise letter formation
  • Worksheet with handwriting lines to rehearse lowercase letters
  • Worksheet with handwriting lines to rehearse capital letters

How to use these worksheets in the classroom

Use these worksheets as part of regular handwriting skills practice or as part of a small group or 1:1 intervention to teach the correct formation of letters for joining. They are ideal for setting as a homework activity, or use them 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

  • 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
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