Handwriting Practice Printouts

Written by UPrinting    ●    Updated on November 13, 2023

Learning to write starts in kindergarten because it's one of the most important things you'll learn in all of your time in school. When you don't know how to write, you can't take notes so that you'll remember things for later. You can't make a list of what you want for your birthday or what your parents need to buy at the grocery store. You can't write fun notes for your friends or write "I love you" in a card for Mother's Day or Father's Day. Writing is how we save our thoughts so that we can remember them later, and it's how we share our ideas with other people. But if you don't know how to write or your writing is so messy that nobody can read it, you can't do any of those things. That's why it's really important to practice writing until you can write all of the letters and numbers the right way. Writing is a skill that you'll use all the time for your whole life, so you really need to be sure that you know how to do it well!

Everyone needs to know how to print letters and numbers, but a lot of people also know how to write in cursive. Cursive is a fancier form of writing that looks prettier and is usually faster to write. That's because you don't pick up your pencil or pen as much: When you write in cursive, most of the letters in each word are connected to each other, so instead of writing one line and then picking up your pencil, moving it, and writing the next line, you can just keep moving the pencil forward. Cursive can be a little harder to read than print, which is why it's even more important that you write neatly when you write in cursive. But once you can write in cursive, you'll find that it's a lot easier to read things that other people have written in cursive, from notes that your parents write down to famous documents like the Declaration of Independence.

Like with any skill, learning to write well, either by printing or in cursive, takes practice. That's why it's a good idea to print out worksheets that you can trace over to practice writing each letter as well as writing whole words and sentences. There are lots of places online where you can find handwriting worksheets or create your own to help you get better at writing.

Resources

• Printing Letters Worksheets: Choose a letter to see and print out a worksheet that shows how to write that letter and gives you space to practice it.
• Handwriting Worksheet Maker: Print out this worksheet that contains all of the uppercase and lowercase letters to practice with, or erase the letters and type in any letters or words you want to make your own custom worksheet.
• Fundations Letter Formation Guide: This booklet shows how every letter of the alphabet is made using the Fundations method, which separates letters based on the types of lines they use.
• Number Handwriting Practice Sheets: It's really important to know how to write letters, but you also need to know how to write numbers properly. Print out these worksheets to practice writing all of the numbers from 1 to 10.
• Worksheets to Practice Printing Letters and Numbers: Click on a letter or number to find and print out a worksheet that will help you practice how to write it.
• Printable Writing Workbooks: Choose a topic that looks interesting, like oceans, dinosaurs, or the human skeleton, and then pick "Zaner-Bloser Print" to get a whole workbook you can print out to practice your printing.
• Dot-Trace Practice Printouts: You can create and print out four different kinds of worksheets here, including ones that make it easy to practice writing your name, a few words, a sentence, or a whole paragraph.
• Handwriting Practice Worksheet Generator: This worksheet-maker lets you type in any letters or words you want to practice and use either solid or dotted letters.
• Months of the Year Handwriting Practice Sheets: Print out a sheet for each month to practice writing these words in either print or cursive.
• Zaner-Bloser Handwriting: Here's a whole workbook about handwriting, including how to print and how to write in cursive plus worksheets to help you practice both kinds of writing.
• Practice Your Cursive Handwriting: Not all kids learn to write in cursive these days, but it can be really fun to learn to write in a new way. You'll also have an easier time being able to read things that are written in cursive.
• Cursive Writing Worksheets: This site groups cursive letters based on their shape. You can print out worksheets about the "rockin' round letters," the "climb 'n' slide letters," the "loopy letters," the "lumpy letters," and letters that are a mixture of those other shapes.
• Cursive Handwriting: You can practice every letter of the alphabet in cursive with this book of worksheets.
• Cursive Worksheet Generator: Type in the words you want to learn to write in cursive, then print out a worksheet that you can use to practice.
• Joining Cursive Letters: When you write in cursive, the letters are connected together. These worksheets can help you practice writing whole words in cursive.