Cursive handwriting worksheets, your own words in joined writing.

A cursive handwriting worksheet shows joined-up writing and gives the learner room to copy it. Many printable packs give you the alphabet and a fixed set of words. This page gives you any text you want: the letters one by one, a spelling list, a line of a poem you are learning or a sentence about your week. You type it, and the page draws it in joined writing, with a solid model, a dotted trace and a blank row for each line.

How to use it

1. Pick Start from to load the alphabet or sample sentences, or type your own under Text to practise, one line each. Up to 40 lines.
2. Choose a Layout. Copy each line gives a model row, then trace rows, then a blank row. Repeat each line across the row repeats a short word again and again along the row, like a name sheet.
3. Set Rows for each line, and tick Add a blank row to write alone if you want the extra blank line.
4. Choose the Size, Tracing look and Guide lines. A medium size works for most pages.
5. Press Save the PDF.

Copy or repeat?

Use Copy each line for sentences and anything longer than a word or two. The model is on the first row, and the tracing row below it has the same text in dots, so the child sees the joins and then follows them. Use Repeat each line across the row for single words or letters. With the alphabet in lines of thirteen letters, a copy layout works well. For a word like "sun", repeating fits many on a row.

Long lines wrap

If a line is wider than the page at the chosen size, it is split at the spaces into as many rows as it needs. Each part gets its own model, trace and blank rows. If a single word is wider than the page, the whole sheet is made smaller so that it fits, and the status line tells you. For long sentences, Small gives the most words to a row.

About the joined writing

The letters come from a typeface, so the joins are those of the typeface and not of any particular school scheme. Check them against what your child is being taught. Some capital letters may not join to the next small letter, which is also the case in many handwriting styles. The shapes are drawn as outlines, so dotted tracing follows both edges of each stroke, not a single centre line. If the overlapping strokes of a joined letter look busy, try Light grey, which fills the shape and shows no inner lines.

Guide lines and size

• Three lines shows the top, middle and base, which helps with tall and short letters.
• Small letters make a 22 point row, Medium 32 points and Large 46 points, measured from the base line to the top line.
• Joined writing slopes, so leave the guide lines on unless the child writes on ruled paper placed over the sheet.

Print letters instead? Use the letter tracing worksheets. For a typed note that looks handwritten, try text to handwriting. For a child's own name, use the name tracing worksheets.

Fonts and licences

Letter shapes come from two free fonts under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, read on 27 Oct 2026: Andika for print letters and Playwrite US Trad for joined writing. The font files are used as they are and served from this site.