Name Tracing Sheets

Cursive X: capital X and lowercase x

Three pages to trace: capital X, lowercase x, and box, fox and six 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 X: capital X and lowercase x
The first page with the default settings, as it prints on US Letter paper.

How to write a cursive capital X

  1. Start a little below the top line with a small curve and pull a slant down to the baseline, ending with a curve up to the right.
  2. Lift the pencil. Start at the top line on the right and pull a straight slant down to the left, crossing the first stroke in the middle.

On these sheets capital X joins the letter after it.

How to write a cursive lowercase x

  1. From the baseline, make a small hump up to the midline and slant down to the baseline.
  2. End with a curve up.
  3. Lift and cross it with a slant from the midline on the right down to the baseline on the left. Like the t cross, it can wait until the word is finished.

Joining cursive x to other letters

Lowercase x starts with an overcurve hump, like n, and leaves from the baseline. Most English x’s come at the end of a word or after e: box, fox, six, next, exit. The join into x rises into the hump; the join out of it starts from the end of the first stroke, not from the cross.

The cross is a separate stroke, so the word is written first and the x crossed afterwards, the same way t is crossed.

Cursive X and print X

Print x is two straight lines crossing. Cursive x is a hump and a slant, crossed by a second slant. Capital X has a curved first stroke and a straight cross, and it joins the next letter from the end of its first stroke.

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

Cursive x words

box, fox, six, wax, next.

Previous: cursive W. Next: cursive Y. All 26 letters: cursive alphabet worksheets.

Questions

When do you cross the cursive x?

After the hump and slant are written and joined to the next letter. Many children finish the whole word first, then cross the x, as they would a t.

Why are the practice words for x words that end in x?

Very few words a child writes start with x. Words such as box and six put x where it usually is, and practice the join into it.

Does cursive capital X join the next letter?

Yes, from the end of its first stroke, which curves up on the right. The crossing slant is added with a lift.