Letter tracing worksheets

Each row has three lines, the same as handwriting paper. Capitals and tall letters like b, d and l reach the top line, small letters like a, e and m stop at the dashed midline, and g, p and y drop below the baseline into the space before the next row.

The three sizes match multi-program handwriting paper sold for each grade: 1 1/8 inch rows for pre-K and kindergarten, 5/8 inch rows for Zaner-Bloser first grade and D'Nealian kindergarten, and 1/2 inch rows for Zaner-Bloser second grade and D'Nealian first grade. The same rows, without letters, are on lined paper.

The letters are plain print with a round a and g. They're drawn from Hershey Simplex, one of the Hershey fonts, which were made around 1967 for early computer screens; the font data's licence says they were created by Dr A. V. Hershey while working at the US National Bureau of Standards, in a data format created by James Hurt of Cognition, Inc. Each letter is a single pen line rather than an outline, so there's one clean path to trace. The sheet doesn't add arrows or starting dots, because the stroke order differs between handwriting schemes, so follow the one your child's school teaches.

Once the letters are coming along, name tracing worksheets put a child's name, or any word, on the same rows, with one sheet per name for a whole class. The same choice is in the Practise menu above.