Letter tracing worksheets, dotted letters for any alphabet or numbers.

A letter tracing worksheet gives a child a letter to look at and a row of faint copies to write over. This page builds the sheet from the letters you choose, so one tool covers capital letters, small letters, both together, the numbers 0 to 9, or a handful of letters a child is working on this week. There are no downloads to hunt through and no watermarks. The letters are drawn from a real font, so the curves and ends are clean.

How to use it

1. Choose Letters to trace. For a few letters, pick Pick my own and type them under Type the letters or numbers. Tick Show each as a capital and a small letter to get pairs like Aa.
2. Choose Rows for each letter. The first row uses your pattern, and extra rows are all dotted copies.
3. Pick the Size: Small, Medium or Large. Large suits the youngest learners, and small suits older children who write on narrow lines.
4. Choose how the tracing letters look under Tracing look, and how each row runs under Each row.
5. Pick the Guide lines, then Paper, and press Save the PDF.

The three parts of a row

With Model, then dotted copies the first letter is solid and all the others are dotted. With Model, dotted, then blank, the dotted copies fill about the first 60 percent of the row after the model, and the rest of the row is left empty for the child to write alone. With Dotted copies only there is no solid letter, which suits a sheet that goes alongside a book or a wall chart. The number of copies in a row is worked out from the width of the letter: wide letters like W get fewer copies than narrow ones like I.

Guide lines

The guide lines show where each letter sits. The base line is where letters stand. The top line shows how tall capitals and tall letters reach. The dashed middle line marks the height of small letters such as a, c and x. Three lines help with capitals against small letters. Two lines are simpler for a first sheet. Base line only is the lightest option, and None leaves the page clear if the child is using a ruled book on top.

Picking the look

• Dotted outline: the shape is drawn as a ring of dots. It is the lightest on ink and the clearest to trace.
• Light grey: solid pale letters. Easier for a very young child who struggles to follow small dots.
• Dotted on grey: both together, a pale fill with a dotted edge.

Worked sizes

A point is 1/72 of an inch. The letter height is the distance from the base line to the top line, and each row has room under the line for tails such as g and y. On A4 with the name line, large letters give 8 rows to a page, medium 12 and small 17, so a full A to Z sheet runs to two or more pages.

This sheet is a print layout, so the letter style depends on the font, not on any school scheme. If your school teaches a particular style, check it against the shapes in the preview. Try joined writing with the cursive handwriting worksheets, or write a child's own name with 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.

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