Name Tracing Sheets

Cursive E: capital E and lowercase e

Three pages to trace: capital E, lowercase e, and egg, eel and eye joined. The letters print in light gray without arrows, so the steps below say where each stroke goes.

Each line becomes its own page. Keep Aa–Zz or type any words.

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Printed sample: Cursive E: capital E and lowercase e
The first page with the default settings, as it prints on US Letter paper.

How to write a cursive capital E

  1. Start a little below the top line on the right. Curve up and over to the left and back in toward the middle, like the top of a backward 3.
  2. Make a small loop at the middle.
  3. Curve out to the left and around a larger bottom curve to the baseline, then swing up to the right.

On these sheets capital E joins the letter after it.

How to write a cursive lowercase e

  1. From the baseline, swing up in a slanted line toward the midline.
  2. Loop back to the left at the top and come down to the baseline.
  3. Finish with a curve up to the right.

Joining cursive e to other letters

e starts on the baseline with an upstroke, the same stroke most letters end with, so it joins after almost anything. The hard joins are after b, o, v and w: in be, oe, ve and we the join leaves from the midline and has to dip before it can loop back up. That is where most e’s get lost, and have turns into havi.

e leaves from the baseline. Keep the loop open, with a clear space inside it, so that ee in see and tree reads as two letters.

Cursive E and print E

Print e starts in the middle with a line across. Cursive e has no line at all: it is a small slanted loop. Capital E is a curly shape like a backward 3, nothing like the four straight lines of print E.

Print E with starting dots and arrows: letter E tracing worksheets.

Cursive e words

egg, eel, eye, even, eleven.

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Questions

Why does my child’s cursive e look like an i?

The loop is squeezed shut. Keep a clear space inside the loop, and let the upstroke slant so the top turns back to the left before coming down.

What is the difference between cursive e and l?

Same movement, different height. e loops just under the midline; l loops up to the top line. Writing el and le a few times shows the difference.

Is cursive capital E a backward 3?

It looks like one: a small curve at the top, a loop in the middle and a bigger curve at the bottom. Unlike a 3 it ends with a stroke that joins the next letter, as in Emma.