Cursive Alphabet Worksheets
This page opens on the whole alphabet in cursive, each capital beside its small letter, from Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee on the first line to Ww Xx Yy Zz on the sixth. Every set gets a dark model row, two light gray rows to trace and a blank row to copy on, at 0.75 in rows, which fills two pages on Letter or A4. Press Make worksheet to draw it, then Download PDF or Print sheet.
Each line becomes a labeled group of a model row, trace rows and blank rows.
style cursive, Dancing Script paper Letter 8.5 x 11 in margins 0.5 in, header 0.5 in row 0.75 in, 4 guide lines per line model, 2 trace, 1 blank
Your sheet is drawn from the letters of real fonts
Roboto (489 KB) draws print and the header; Dancing Script (134 KB) or Allura (247 KB) draws cursive. They download from this site when you start.
- Letters
- Sheet
- Row size
- Paper
- Spacing
- Model groups
- none yet
- Rows
- none yet
- Paper
- Letter, 0.75 in rows
- Print scale
- 100%, not fit to page
Fonts, served unmodified from this site under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: Roboto 3.015 (licence, source), Dancing Script 2.001 (licence, source) and Allura 1.110 (licence, source). Print letters are Roboto, a typeface with the two-storey a and g of printed books, so they are not a school ball-and-stick model.
Common questions
- Can I practise one letter at a time?
- Yes. Replace the text with just that letter, for example Aa on one line, and raise Trace rows for more tracing. Every line you type is its own numbered group, so typing Aa, Bb and so on down to Zz on 26 lines gives each letter its own group.
- Can I make capitals only, or lowercase only?
- Yes. Delete the letters you do not want: type a b c d on the first line for lowercase, or A B C D for capitals, and carry on the same way. Formal cursive under Letters switches every letter to Allura's shapes.
- Do these letters match the cursive my school teaches?
- Not exactly. The letters are Dancing Script, a typeface, not D'Nealian, Zaner-Bloser or another school method, so some capitals in particular are shaped differently, and the sheet shows no stroke order. Print one page and compare it with your class letter chart before making a set.
Letter shapes come straight from the fonts, Roboto for print and Dancing Script or Allura for cursive, so they are font examples, not a named school handwriting method, and the sheets give no stroke order. Row sizes are exact only when the page is printed at 100%, not fit to page, and a character the chosen font lacks is named in a warning and left out rather than printed as an empty box. The fonts are served from this site, unmodified, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with their notices.