Do the cursive letters have stroke arrows?

No. Cursive is shown as light gray letters or a dotted outline, without starting dots or arrows. Starting dots and stroke order arrows are on the print letters, for example on the letter tracing worksheets.

Which cursive style is this?

Traditional US cursive, using Playwrite US Traditional, an open-source typeface made for teaching handwriting in US schools. It is close to what most American schools teach, but a few letters, such as capital Q, may differ slightly from your school's chart.

Should children learn lowercase or capital cursive letters first?

Lowercase first. Lowercase letters make up almost all of what children write, and they are where the joins are. Capitals usually come after all the lowercase letters, a few at a time.

What grade learns cursive?

Most US schools that teach cursive start in second or third grade. A child who writes neat print letters at a steady size is usually ready.

Can I save it as a PDF?

Yes. Press Print or save as PDF and choose Save as PDF as the printer. Download PNG saves one image per page.

Cursive Alphabet Worksheets – Free Printable A to Z

Aa to Zz, one letter per page

Keep the alphabet or edit it. The box starts with Aa to Zz, 26 pages. Delete the letters you are not working on, or type lowercase letters, capitals or whole words instead, one per line.
Pick a tracing style. Light gray letters are the easiest to trace over. Dotted outline leaves more of the work to the child.
Pick a line size. Large for beginners, medium once the joins are smooth, small for older children.
Print or save as PDF. The first line of each page shows the letters in solid ink; the rows below are for tracing. Under More options you can add empty lines at the end to write the letters alone.

Lowercase cursive in three stroke families

Most US programs teach lowercase cursive in groups that begin with the same stroke, so each new letter builds on one already learned:

Undercurve letters: i, t, u, w, e, l, b, h, f, k, r, s, j, p. They start on the baseline and swing up and to the right.
Downcurve letters: a, d, g, o, c, q. They start just below the midline and curve back to the left, like the start of a c.
Overcurve letters: n, m, v, y, x, z. They start with a small hump that goes up and over to the right.

Type one family into the box, one letter per line, to print a week of practice that sticks to a single stroke.

Cursive letters that look different from print

Most cursive letters look like their print versions with a joining stroke added. These do not, and they are worth an extra page each:

r and s start with a small point or bump at the midline and look nothing like the printed letters.
f has a loop above the midline and another below the baseline.
z drops below the baseline with a loop, and the capital Z looks much like a 3 on a tail.
b, o, v and w end high, at the midline, so the next letter joins from there rather than from the baseline.
Capital Q looks like a large 2, and capital G and I are often mixed up with S and J.

A few capitals, such as O, V and W, usually end without a joining stroke, so the next letter starts on its own.

From letters to words

Once a letter family is steady, move to short words made only from known letters, such as it, tie and will after the undercurve letters. Type them into the box, one per line. Then practice the child's own name on the cursive name tracing page, and whole sentences in the handwriting worksheet generator, which also has cursive letters.

Cursive alphabet worksheets