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Handwriting practice worksheets are a great way to get kids to learn, or improve, their writing skills. They’re especially handy in early elementary school when kids are old enough to sit down and write, but still developing their handwriting.

With more things becoming digital and typing takes over, it’s more important than ever to reinforce handwriting in kids. Even if it means working on it at home. 

What Kind of Handwriting Practice Worksheets Are Best?

If you’re new to worksheets, here’s how to choose the best one for your child:

Age Appropriate

Look for printable worksheets that aren’t too easy or hard for the child who you’re practising with. There are handwriting practice worksheets that are great for beginners at the preschool or kindergarten level, and more advanced ones to help elementary aged kids.

It’s best if you start with skills they are already familiar with and work your way up to more difficult ones. If it’s too simple kids will get bored, and one that’s too complicated could lead to frustration.

Skill Building

What skills is the child working on that need some extra practice? Simple letter formation worksheets are great for beginners in preschool and kindergarten. Once they master their ABCs you can move on to whole words and phrases.

Another way to practice writing in elementary school is with guided lessons. You can incorporate teaching other skills, like learning the spelling of a child’s name, their address, or the days of the week into your writing practice to teach two skills at once!

• Name Tracing Practice – Original
• Name Tracing & Writing Practice Booklet
• My Address & Phone Number

Number Practice

Number formation is a part of handwriting and a necessary skill to develop as kids are introduced to early math concepts. Teaching kids to form, and later write, numbers 1-10, 1-20, and eventually 1-100 happens during kindergarten and the early elementary years. 

Worksheets can help teach kids how to write their numbers and also give them number sense and rote counting practice.

• Numbers Tracing Worksheet 1-20
• 1-100 Number Tracing Practice

Customizable

One size never fits all when it comes to kids. Choose printables that can be customized with your own words and fonts to help support a child’s learning goals. What’s great about custom options is that you can repeat the same worksheet at different difficulty levels or practice cursive handwriting. 

• Word Tracing Practice – Original

Using Cursive Handwriting Practice Worksheets

Speaking of cursive, printables worksheets are one of the best ways to master that skill. Typically, kids start with basic printing and then move on to pre-handwriting letter formation. The D’Nealian – Manuscript font is great for this.

Since proper letter formation is really important with cursive writing (incorrect writing won’t flow as easily), handwriting practice worksheets should be repeated until kids get a good hang of each letter.

From there, you can move onto joining some letters together to spell a word. I like to start with the child’s name. 

• Cursive Name Tracing Worksheet

Using Worksheets to Measure Progress

If you’re an elementary school teacher or homeschooling family you’re always looking for ways to measure the child’s progress. Handwriting isn’t a black and white skill; it improves slowly over time.

So how do you measure handwriting progress?

At the beginning of the school year, have each child complete a handwriting worksheet. The exact worksheet you use will depend on the age of the kids. Kindergarteners and first grade kids, for example, should either use the alphabet or their name as a guide.

The school year will provide plenty of opportunities to develop any areas where kids might be struggling with their writing, and there’s definitely no shortage of writing practice for school aged kids!

At the end of the year have them repeat the worksheet they completed at the start. This will give you an idea of how much the child has improved with their writing over the term. Not only is it a great tool for educators, kids find seeing their progress motivating too.

For older elementary kids you can do something more complex. Just make sure that you can consistently repeat it again at the end of the year, or at least have them do something similar enough that you’ll be able to see the progress.

Measuring Numeracy Skills

You can also use this technique to measure number writing. For this, I really like the last page of this number tracing worksheet pack . You can use the other pages throughout the school year to practice, but the last one has numbers 1-100 listed on one page.

Just like with the handwriting worksheets, have kids complete the sheet at the start of the year to the best of their ability. You can also use those sheets as an indication for where your child or class is at, and tailor your lessons accordingly.

Then, at the end of the year, have them try and trace numbers 1-100 again and see how much they’ve improved!

Measuring Cursive Handwriting Progress

If your child is learning cursive handwriting, or you’re practising at home, you can use the same method to measure their progress with two worksheets. 

When working with older children it’s nice to use a longer sentence when measuring cursive writing progress since it’s important to see how well the child can link the letters together. 

If you want to see how well kids can write on their own, a printable creative story writing worksheet is a great way to encourage independent writing. 

How to Use Worksheets to Improve Reading and Spelling

Writing out words is one of the best ways to help kids learn to spell. Customizable handwriting practice worksheets can be generated with a child’s name, dolch sight words, or weekly spelling words.

This word tracing worksheet is perfect for reading and spelling skills. You can customise it with any words or phrases you’re practising. 

Rainbow Writing – Have them pick out several colored pencils and then write each letter out in a color pattern. This helps kids slow down and take in each letter because they have to stop to change colors.

Sound Blends – Use the worksheets to help identify tricky sound blends like \sh\ or \oo\. Have them write those blends in different colors or highlight them. This can also be helpful for kids with speech problems.

Rhyming Words – List a bunch of words that rhyme like “ball, fall, tall, hall, etc.” and have the child colour the rhyming part (all) in a different colour from the rest of the word. For older kids, use longer or compound words (eg. gumball, downfall, etc.).

Handwriting Worksheets for Language Learning

Whether it’s ESL or another language, worksheets are great for learning at any age. You can customise them to include vocabulary and spelling words. Then just use the techniques listed above to work on your reading or spelling!

How to Keep Children Interested in Handwriting Practice

When you’re working with kids at the early elementary level you have to get creative to keep them focused. Traditional worksheets are a great tool, but too much of them can get boring. Here’s some ways to make it more fun:

Emphasise Practising Their Name

It’s one of the first words young kids master writing. Planning writing practice around a child’s name is great for the start of kindergarten to introduce name writing, and throughout the year to practice other skills.

Name tracing practice booklets like this one can make writing more fun. There’s some tracing, plus cutting, sorting, and glueing activities. These break up the writing and help develop other early reading and writing skills in a more engaging way.

Think Past The Writing Worksheet

You can use worksheets for more than just writing! Some, like this playdough worksheet , are perfect for preschoolers to work on letter formation even if they can’t write yet.

Other ideas include turning a worksheet into a puzzle by cutting out each letter, using bubble letters to turn a worksheet into a word colouring page, and having kids use a worksheet as a reminder to help them write new words on a separate piece of paper. 

You can also make worksheets fun by making them seasonal . Plus it’s a handy way to measure progress throughout the year.

Make it Useful

Learning is way more fun when you understand why you’re learning something. Instead of just having kids repeat letter formation or write out meaningless sentences, have them practice writing something they can actually use.

One way to do this is with an address writing worksheet . While it’s good for learning a child’s own address and phone number, you can also turn it into a letter writing activity.

First, collect and practice the address for someone the child would like to send a letter to. Then copy that address onto the envelope! 

Since the post office will have to read the address, you’ll be able to give a real-world reason for why neat, legible handwriting is important to learn. 

The letter itself can contain a drawing or, depending on the child’s age and skill level, it can be a letter – which is another opportunity to practice writing in a meaningful way. 

Other Ways For Kids to Practice Handwriting

• Have them label their school work with their name, and later, the date.
• Encourage kids to write out useful information like family shopping lists.
• Writing little notes or messages inside of cards and giving them to family and friends.
• Gift lists for birthdays or holidays (letters to Santa are great for this!).
• Let kids practice with unique writing tools like window writers, sidewalk chalk, bath crayons, etc. 

Handwriting practice worksheets are a great tool when it comes to teaching elementary aged kids printing and cursive writing! These activities are great for developing skills at home or in the classroom. Once your child gets used to worksheets, try adding in some fun activities to keep them interested. Have fun learning! 

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Print Handwriting Worksheets

Below you'll find printable handwriting worksheets for letters A-Z (print.) Your student will practice upper and lower letters and write them in words. Each worksheet is aligned with Common Core Standards for Literacy for kindergarten and 1st grade, although other students may find the practice helpful. Check out all of our writing worksheets !

Handwriting Practice Letters A – Z

Combined worksheets for letters A through Z (26 pages)

Handwriting Practice: AT

The common letter combination “at” is the focus of this handwriting worksheet.

Practice Writing the Letter A

The amazing A is the focus of this handwriting worksheet!

Practice Writing the Letter B

Your student will do a better B after this handwriting practice.

Practice Writing the Letter C

Cute and curvy C is the center of this handwriting worksheet.

Practice Writing the Letter D

Here’s a letter D drill to discover!

Practice Writing the Letter E

Everybody can excel with the letter E after this handwriting practice.

Practice Writing the Letter F

F is not for failure, it’s for fun and fabulous in this handwriting worksheet!

Practice Writing the Letter G

This gorgeous worksheet is about that great letter G!

Practice Writing the Letter H

Here’s a happy printable handwriting worksheet on the helpful letter H.

Practice Writing the Letter I

It’s important to learn to ink the letter I!

Practice Writing the Letter J

No joke, this worksheet on jaunty J is just a jewel!

Practice Writing the Letter K

Kingly K is a keen letter to know!

Practice Writing the Letter L

L is for love, and you’ll love this handwriting worksheet!

Practice Writing the Letter M

Mighty M makes many words memorable.

Practice Writing the Letter N

No one can resist the nice letter N!

Practice Writing the Letter O

The letter O is the almost the only oval letter.

Practice Writing the Letter P

For perfet practice, try this P handwriting worksheet.

Practice Writing the Letter Q

Here’s a quest for the quite unusual letter Q!

Practice Writing the Letter R

Are you ready for the really reliable letter R?

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18 Fun Handwriting Activities for Kids (Even the Reluctant Ones)

When your child struggles with handwriting, the best way to make handwriting practice fun is to put away the worksheets. You don't want to pressure reluctant writers, but it is still important to work on handwriting skills so kids can continue to improve.

Kids who struggle with dysgraphia or other writing related learning disorders can still enjoy working on learning letter formation, spacing, and spelling, especially if teachers, occupational therapists and parents find alternatives to handwriting worksheets.

Pardon the pun, but these fun, hands-on handwriting activities will motivate even the most reluctant writer!

1. Encourage handwriting that doesn't look like schoolwork or homework . Write to each other on post-it notes, or set up a family mailbox system with shoeboxes and leave short letters for each other.

2. Make writing practical. When your child wants to remember something, have them write a note on a notepad, calendar or Post-it note.

3. Write cards or postcards. Writing thank you cards or birthday cards not only gives kids an opportunity to practice their handwriting, it teaches manners. Who knows, it might even lead to a penpal!

4. Engage your child's interest as motivation to practice handwriting.

• Write a letter to a favorite Disney character. Knowing they will get a postcard in return from that character is very motivating!
• Show them how to make a small booklet to write a story about Star Wars .
• Make their own Pokemon, baseball or other themed trading cards
• Print out this small coloring page booklet like the one in the video below so they can write their own story to go along with the illustrations!

Make a book.

5. Write in code.

• Teach your kids the pigpen cipher . They will love writing messages to others to decode!
• Create a scavenger hunt which requires them to decode messages. My kids thought a superhero decoding scavenger hunt I set up for them was the best after school activity ever!
• Learn how to write with invisible ink ! Writing with something they can't see forces them to work carefully on letter formation and legibility.

6. Set out extra large paper sheets on the floor. Getting down on the floor engages the whole body and important muscles required for handwriting, and changes your child's perspective in more ways than one.

• Create a giant dot to dot like this one to start out with;
• then move on to making a giant comic strip . Both ideas were a big hit in our house.

7. Learn letter formation with alternative materials.

• For example, kids can learn how to form letters with magnet alphabet cards .
• Use a writing app, like Writing Wizard  or Handwriting Without Tears  and use a stylus instead of tracing letters with a finger. The stylus encourages proper pencil grip.

8. Make a sensory salt tray . This is great for kids who get frustrated when they don't feel their writing is perfect because they can give the tray a little shake to quickly erase. Alternatively use flour, cornmeal or sand or these other suggestions . Write with fingers, a chopstick, an unsharpened pencil. Just changing up the materials you use can make a big difference.

9. Write with window crayons on a glass window or door. This feels rebellious, which kids love!

10. Use copy work in place of handwriting worksheets/workbooks. Copy work can be as simple as one word ( for a young write r) or a sentence from a favorite book or movie ( for an older writer ). Think, "Luke, I am your father." or a Harry Potter quote, or whatever your child finds inspirational.

11. Give your child bath tub paints in the tub or shower for handwriting practice. This is even more fun when it's the middle of the day and not the usual bath time. Invite them to get their swim suit on because school/homework is in the tub today. Use this easy recipe for bathtub paint from Nurture Store.

12.   Write "bathroom words." Seriously! I am not too uptight to let my son write the word "fart" ( or worse! ) 100 times, if it means he is writing. This is a great activity when kids are learning cursive!

13. Take handwriting practice outside with sidewalk chalk. Tip: If you have a brick patio or a deck, they can act like lines on paper.

14. Write on an easel. This encourages muscle development of all the muscles kids need to strengthen for handwriting from their fingers, and hands to their wrists, arms and shoulders ( yes, all those muscles are engaged in handwriting tasks ). Don't have an easel? Hang a piece of paper up on a wall or window. A new set of markers added to this activity makes it even more enticing.

15. Dip cotton swabs in water and write on a chalkboard, or dip them in paint and write on paper.  This is sort of amazing. Try it and see.

16. Paint on a chalkboard easel with water and a paintbrush. There's no chalk dust to worry about and the water creates a fun handwriting experience. When my son painted with water on the chalkboard he got his whole body moving!

17. Keep a nature journal. Use these nature journalling tips for kids hate writing but love to be outdoors. Be sure to add an "I Wonder Why?" journal page . In fact, any kind of creative journal will do!

18. Draw and label maps ! Making maps , whether they are of imaginary landscapes or familiar neighborhoods is a fun handwriting activity because it frees children up from worrying about sentence structure and grammar. Plus, the drawing of lines and shapes is also great writing practice.

BONUS! Ideas from Occupational Therapists around the web:

• DIY pencil control worksheets from The OT Toolbox.
• Write on a light box . I have got to make one of these from The OT Toolbox.
• Sensory handwriting practice with a pen at Sugar Aunts.
• Working on pre-writing shapes  at In the Playroom.
• Ingenious trick to develop better pencil grasp from My Mundane and Miraculous Life.
• Practice lines with firework handwriting from Therapy Fun Zone.
• Draw and write about a monster from Therapy Fun Zone.
• Clever cat trick from Learn with Play at Home
• Quick tip about tall, short and tail letters from The Inspired Treehouse.

Julie Kirkwood, of the blog, Creekside Learning, contributed to this post.

Reader Interactions

January 29, 2015 at 1:41 pm

Love your ideas! I have try some of these. Our kids are so similar. My daughter writes for fun but my son is also fine motor challenged. I know he will write me a note though if he thinks he is helping me, or bathroom words! very clever!!!

Jeanette Nyberg says

January 29, 2015 at 4:42 pm

You come up with the BEST IDEAS. I can't believe I hadn't thought of Star Wars to practice writing, when Beckett comes home with e new Star Wars library book daily. And writing words like, "fart"? I'll be doing that one for sure. And "poop". Bye Bye

January 30, 2015 at 5:00 am

Writing his own Pokemon cards, skylander cards and various score cards is the main thing that got my eldest more interested in writing - he sounds quite similar to your boy! He was a really reluctant writer, now I always find papers scattered around his room with things like name, code name, speed, boost etc - some of them are hilarious the things he includes on it 😀

Thanks for including our pre writing shapes post 🙂

Margaret@YTherapySource says

August 25, 2015 at 11:13 pm

These are excellent suggestions especially the bathroom words one! New suggestion for me but I know it would be a laugh in this house.

Here are some pre-writing ideas without picking up a pencil - ttp://yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2015/01/18/5-ways-to-work-on-pre-writing-skills-without-a-pencil/

Another popular post is 10 Simple Handwriting and Drawing Games to Play at ttp://yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2014/12/21/10-simple-drawing-and-handwriting-games/

Riannah says

March 12, 2016 at 1:43 pm

Great suggestions, can't wait to try them out with my little sister :). Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

Erica MomandKiddo says

March 16, 2016 at 11:13 am

Stephanie says

April 15, 2016 at 9:01 pm

Great suggestions! We do a lot of Muffalo Potato videos on You Tube. My son loves them and the guy only uses letters to draw his pictures so he is practicing his writing while having fun.

April 16, 2016 at 5:43 am

Thanks for sharing!

November 23, 2018 at 1:40 am

What is your YouTube channel called

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Handwriting practice paper printable

In today’s article: Blank printable handwriting paper to print at home or in the classroom for your students!

Whether your child is learning to write her name or her first sentences, these free printable handwriting worksheets will be definitely useful.

They help children to stay inside the lines, mark the middle line clearly so they can work on both – upper and lowercase letters !

I also added red and blue handwriting paper often used for cursive writing practice.

Plus, some people even use this lined paper to practice penmanship and calligraphy. So whether you need a paper template for your students or yourself, go and grab your copy at the end of this article.

Printable Handwriting paper

These blank writing paper worksheets are a must-have for every parent and teacher during the school year. So whether you teach preschool , kindergarten, or homeschool your kids, make sure to save this handwriting paper for years to come.

You can print as many as you want and any time you might need them throughout the year.

There are seven pages total included in this pdf.

Two portrait pages, two landscape and one with an option to draw a picture.

Two of the pages are in color just in case you prefer blue lined paper.

The line height on each page is 1 inch.

Handwriting practice

If you need more handwriting practice worksheets or letter tracing printables, check out some of our writing and tracing articles below:

Letter A tracing is a fresh printable for letter A handwriting practice! Two pages, one for uppercase and one for lowercase letter. Plus, pictures to color too!

Months and days tracing worksheets is a great printable if your students are working on their calendar – days of the week and months of the year. They can learn to write and read the words.

Tracing Dolch sight words in kindergarten includes all 52 sight words from the Dolch list for kindergarten. Students will learn to trace and write their sight words.

Tracing number words will help children to learn to write the number words from one to ten.

Numbers 1-20 tracing worksheets is a popular printable here on Planes&Balloons. Help children with their number recognition and writing numbers from one to twenty.

Numbers 1-100 tracing worksheets are great for teaching first graders to write their numbers all the way up to 100.

I really hope this handwriting printable will come in handy to you and your students.

To download this printable handwriting paper, simply click on the download button at the end of this post.

Red and blue lined paper for cursive writing

For readers who use this style of paper, now it’s included in the printable pack (pages 6 and 7).

Please, keep in mind that this free printable handwriting paper is for personal or classroom use only. Not for altering or redistribution in any way. Thank you!

Blank handwriting paper

Kindergarten worksheets.

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Alphabet Tracing Worksheets | Free Handwriting Practice Pages

Alphabet tracing worksheets for kids and beginner English language learners. The worksheets on this page are great for practicing print handwriting and learning the shapes and sizes of the letters of the alphabet for the first time. Below you will find various alphabet tracing and writing worksheets with dotted lines for both uppercase and lowercase letters, and blank handwriting practice pages.

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Alphabet Writing Practice Worksheets

Blank Handwriting Worksheet

A blank handwriting practice worksheet with wide, dotted lines for practicing writing letters of the alphabet.

Alphabet Tracing Worksheets – Uppercase

Alphabet tracing worksheets for uppercase letters A to Z. This PDF includes 26 pages, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each page features an uppercase letter with arrows to guide students on how to write the letter correctly. Students should first trace the letters and then write the letters on their own at the bottom of the worksheet.

Alphabet Tracing Worksheets – Lowercase

Alphabet tracing worksheets for lowercase letters A to Z. This PDF includes 26 pages, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each page features a lowercase letter with arrows to guide students on how to write the letter correctly. Students should first trace the letters and then write the letters on their own at the bottom of the worksheet.

Trace And Write The Alphabet A to Z – Uppercase

This alphabet worksheet includes all uppercase letters A to Z on one page. Students should trace the letter and then write the letter on their own on the dotted lines beneath each letter.

Trace And Write The Alphabet A to Z – Lowercase

A worksheet to trace lowercase letters a to z. Students should first trace the letter then write the letter on their own on the dotted lines beneath.

Trace And Write The Alphabet A to Z – Big and Small Letters

An alphabet tracing worksheet to practice big and small letters A to Z. Students should trace the letters and then write the letters on the dotted lines beneath.

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Tracing Big Letters With Curvy Lines - C, O & S Game

Practice tracing big letters with curvy lines - C, O & S.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - a, d & q Game

Practice tracing small letters with standing and curvy lines - a, d and q.

Tracing Big Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - B, D, & P Game

Practice tracing big letters with standing & curvy lines - B, D, & P.

Tracing Big Letters With Sleeping & Slanting Lines - A, V, W, X, Y & Z Game

Practice tracing big letters with sleeping & slanting lines - A, V, W, X, Y & Z.

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Let's Make the Letter A Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter A with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase A Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase A.

Time to Trace Lowercase a Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase a.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - b & p Game

Enhance your language skills by tracing small letters with standing & curvy lines - b & p.

Let's Make the Letter B Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter B with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase B Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase B.

Time to Trace Lowercase b Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase b.

Tracing Small Letters With Curvy Lines - c, o, & s Game

Practice tracing small letters with curvy lines - c, o, & s.

Let's Make the Letter C Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter C with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase C Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase C.

Time to Trace Lowercase c Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase c.

Let's Make the Letter D Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter D with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase D Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase D.

Time to Trace Lowercase d Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase d.

Tracing Big Letters With Standing & Sleeping Lines - E, F, H, I, L & T Game

Practice tracing big letters with standing & sleeping lines - E, F, H, I, L & T.

Tracing Small Letters With Curvy & Sleeping Lines - e Game

Have fun tracing small letters with curvy & sleeping lines - e.

Let's Make the Letter E Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter E with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase E Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase E.

Time to Trace Lowercase e Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase e.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing, Sleeping & Curvy Lines - f, h, m, n & r Game

Practice tracing small letters with standing, sleeping & curvy lines - f, h, m, n & r.

Let's Make the Letter F Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter F with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase F Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase F.

Time to Trace Lowercase f Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase f.

Tracing Big Letters With Standing, Sleeping & Curvy Lines - G Game

Enjoy tracing big letters with standing, sleeping & curvy lines - G.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - g Game

Have fun tracing small letters with curvy & standing lines - g.

Let's Make the Letter G Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter G with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase G Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase G.

Time to Trace Lowercase g Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase g.

Let's Make the Letter H Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter H with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase H Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase H.

Time to Trace Lowercase h Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase h.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing & Sleeping Lines - i, l & t Game

Practice tracing small letters with standing and sleeping lines - i, l and t.

Let's Make the Letter I Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter I with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase I Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase I.

Time to Trace Lowercase i Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase i.

Tracing Big Letters With Standing, Sleeping & Curvy Lines - J Game

Enjoy tracing big letters with standing, sleeping & curvy lines - J.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - u & j Game

Kids will trace small letters with standing & curvy lines - u & j.

Let's Make the Letter J Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter J with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase J Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase J.

Time to Trace Lowercase j Game

Get familiar with writing by learning to trace lowercase j.

Tracing Big Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - K, M & N Game

Practice tracing big letters with standing & curvy lines - K, M & N.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - k Game

Have fun tracing small letters with curvy & standing lines - k.

Let's Make the Letter K Game

Let's take a look at how to make the letter K with this game.

Time to Trace Uppercase K Game

Learn language skills by practicing to trace uppercase K.

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Fun Handwriting Worksheets for Older Kids

Handwriting matters.

The problem is that it’s difficult to find fun handwriting worksheets for older kids.

It seems like each year, students are spending more and more time using technology.

Technology is great and I’m all here for it, but fine motor skills matter too.

Dr. William Klemm from Psychology Today explains, “The benefits to brain development are similar to what you get with learning to play a musical instrument.”

Yet handwriting is one of the first activities that gets pushed aside, especially for older kids, due to the never ending list of standards to teach and reteach.

I’m not perfect either. To be honest, I don’t know that we ever practiced handwriting my first couple years in the classroom.

Then one year I finally made it a goal. I was not going to let those fine motor skills slip through the cracks any longer.

I committed to improving student handwriting and found that these 3 tricks made my life a lot easier.

1. Build handwriting practice into your routine

I kept promising myself that we would practice our handwriting, and it would happen for a few days. Then some change in schedule would come up, and we’d skip it for a day… then two, and soon handwriting was forgotten again.

Finally I decided to build it into our routine for good. Every morning after our daily morning math review board ( you can read more about that here ), we would grab our silly handwriting worksheets for older kids and practice for about 5 minutes.

When I built it into our classroom routine, the students knew to grab their handwriting worksheets without me having to say a word. Plus it turned out to be a nice calm way to start our morning and lead us into our ELA and writing block.

Easy places to add handwriting into your schedule are after recess, for morning work, or right after lunch. I suggest avoiding pack-up time or the very end of the day because it then becomes an activity that gets squished out of your day again.

Action step: Pick a time of day when you could easily add 5 minutes of handwriting in and commit to that! Have your students help hold you accountable!

2. Find FUN handwriting worksheets for older kids

Honestly, one of the biggest reasons I skipped handwriting practice was because of all the students moaning and complaining that the typical alphabet worksheets were boring.

Those worksheets were fine as we learned letters, but we couldn’t do them every day.

I had a difficult time finding activities that my students actually enjoyed for more than a single day, until I started using worksheets that made my kids giggle and smile while they worked.

Above example of one of the gross facts pages from the gross fact month in the year long handwriting bundle . The bundle is great because the topic switches each month, or you can mix them all up so kids never know what they will get.

I start with the silly alphabet sentences then move through positive affirmations, awesome animal facts, gross facts, marvelous math facts, space facts, strange sports facts, wacky holidays, and use weird weather facts during our weather unit!

3. Pick low-prep handwriting worksheets for older kids

As teachers, we have enough on our plates as it is. When it came to planning for handwriting, it felt like just one more thing to plan for.

I decided to create activities for my students that would be silly and engaging, but that would last for the entire year.

You heard that right. Handwriting worksheets for the ENTIRE YEAR planned out in ONE day.

Handwriting for the year is perfect because I can make packets by week or month and then never have to worry about it again. Students keep them in the handwriting worksheets in their folders and can work on them if they finish activities early too!

Plus my class actually begs to take home extras because they enjoyed them so much.

Handwriting for the Year also made my life way easier because it includes the covers for the monthly or quarterly packets, handwriting hero awards for when the students become experts, and it includes handwriting assessments. Those are perfect for parent teacher conferences to show growth or using to present to OT if you feel a student is struggling.

Action step: Choose handwriting activities for older kids that take the stress out of planning. Find something students will enjoy and that you don’t have to think about each week. If you want to check out the worksheets that I use, you can find them in Print , Cursive , D’Nealian print , D’Nealian Cursive , or a bundle of all four types of handwriting! (Tip: Use the code HANDWRITING10 for 10% off!)

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Download regular print and cursive samples – or – download d’nealian print and cursive samples . (hint: you might find a discount code in these documents), conclusion:.

Even with our busy schedules, it’s so incredibly important that we carve out a protected 5-10 minutes each day for handwriting practice.

It doesn’t have to be complicated. With a resource like the year long bundle, you’ll be able to plan out your handwriting instruction for the year in 1 day. Not to mention, your older kids will actually enjoy it more than the boring letter repetition activities.

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25 Ways to Help the Zoom Generation Get Back to Paper and Pencil

We love technology, but doing things the old school way is also important.

After many, many months of online learning, teachers are finding that their students are having a hard time getting away from their keyboards and back to paper and pencil. But the importance of handwriting has long been documented. In addition to the beneficial effects on brain development, handwriting helps students build fine motor skills and dexterity and leads to greater engagement and retention.

So how do we reintegrate this valuable skill back into our students’ repertoire? By making it fun, of course. Here are 25 interesting, engaging activities to motivate your students to get back to doing things by hand.

1. Practice cartography skills

Source: Tree Valley Academy

Have your students create a map of their home, or their room, or their neighborhood. Then, have them draw and label each part of the space they chose. Map making can reinforce language, geography, and math skills.

2. Whip up a menu

Pretend your classroom is a restaurant and ask your students to create the perfect menu. Give each student a piece of card stock and have them decorate the menu and write out the items, including descriptions and prices.

3. Leave encouraging notes

Source: iMom

Spread kindness throughout your classroom! Assign each student a secret buddy. For one week, ask them to leave daily encouraging notes and/or drawings for their buddy. At the end of the week, gather students on the rug and give each student three chances to guess who their secret buddy is.

4. Develop letter writing skills

Learning how to correspond in writing is an important life skill. Teach your students the proper format for both a friendly letter and a business letter. Then let them practice by writing a letter to a family member, friend, or classmate. Have a supply of pretty writing paper and envelopes on hand to make the assignment even more special.

5. Show your appreciation

Make cards to say thank you to the people at your school that make a difference. Let your students choose to whom they would like to write, for instance, the principal, lunchroom workers, custodian, or librarian. Provide art supplies for them to craft their card and lined paper to write their note. Let them deliver their notes, a few at a time, during passing periods or before or after school.

6. Devise a treasure hunt

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Kids love going on a treasure hunt! Why not give them the opportunity to create their own? Have students write 5-7 clues, each on a separate piece of paper, leading to a specific destination. Also, have them devise a “treasure”—a pretty drawing, an origami animal, a funny joke—whatever they can come up with. Set up a time for students to pair up and go on each others’ hunts. This activity is great for practicing sequencing skills and choosing precise language.

7. Start a conversation journal

During literacy time, have students swap writing journals with a friend and write a question for them to answer. Each student then takes their own journal back, reads the question, and answers using at least three sentences. Coach students to ask questions that inspire more than just a yes or no answer.

8. Make up your own games

Divide students into groups of four and ask them to come up with a board game to share with the class. Provide them with a template , or let them devise their own, if they’d like. In addition to illustrating and coloring their game board, they must write out the rules for the game.

9. Create a comic strip

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Drawing and writing both help build fine motor skills. Download an assortment of templates and have your students create their own comic strip, featuring an original character. Be sure to have them include drawings and words.

10. Take a story and run with it

Choose a read-aloud for your students, then have them write a new chapter for a story, change the ending, or write the story from a different point of view.

11. Publish your own books

In my classroom, students loved nothing more than stapling a fat stack of plain white paper together to make their own books. They especially loved writing together and would pair up to write joke books, mysteries, and even poetry collections. Sometimes a blank slate sparks the most creative writing.

12. Take a deeper dive with a reading journal

Pairing literacy instruction with a reading journal is a must. Journals provide students a place to write reflections, draw sketches, jot down interesting words, copy inspiring quotes, and more.

13. Fashion a nature journal

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Take your students outside as often as you can. And when you go, make sure students bring their nature journals. Sit together in a space where students can spread out, then set a timer. Ask students to use their five senses to observe everything around them in silence. Then have them write and draw whatever inspires them until the timer goes off.

14. Set up your own game show

Divide your class into teams and give each team a dry erase board and marker. As emcee, you will ask a question, and one member from each team will write their answer on a dry erase board. Ask them to keep their answers hidden until you prompt them to reveal. Award each team one point for every correct answer. Team members will rotate through, until all of the questions have been asked. The team with the most points at the end wins.

15. Create a travel brochure

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This is a fun project for students to show what they know in a fun way. Using an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of card stock folded into three sections, students can create a travel brochure of a state, a country, or a planet. Tailor the topic to whatever subject you’re currently studying, and give students guidelines for what type of content to include.

16. Provide fun writing prompts

When it comes to writing time, the biggest obstacle for many students is coming up with a topic. Good writing prompts can make a big difference. We’ve created a set of fun writing prompts, one for each of the elementary grades K-6. Check out this second grade version , then scroll to the bottom for links to prompts for other grades.

17. Write with pizzazz

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Make writing more fun by introducing new and different styles for your students to try out. Try rainbow writing (each letter or word is a different color). Or write your name or other favorite word in the middle of a sheet of paper, then trace around it multiple times using a different color each time. Check out books on beginning calligraphy or try to copy different handwriting fonts.

18. Connect with a penpal

Pairing your students up with a penpal will help them practice their writing skills and give them the opportunity to make a new friend.

19. Do crosswords

Crossword puzzles are a fun way to learn new vocabulary. Try this crossword generator to create your own custom puzzles. Create different versions for different subjects and different ability levels.

20. Play connect the dots

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Younger students can practice number and letter sequencing with connect the dots puzzles. This site has over 50 free printable versions for students of all ages.

21. Teach guided note taking

With guided notes, the teacher provides some type of outline of the material to be covered, but with space left for students to complete key information. Learning how to listen for critical information, and write it down, is a skill that students will carry with them all the way through college.

22. Label the U.S. map

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Provide students with a blank map of the United States. Have them label each state with the correct name. Let them use an atlas the first few times, then have them challenge themselves to complete the map without looking.

23. Conduct surveys

Ask students to come up with a question for their classmates. For example, what is your favorite animal, color, food, etc.? Have each student write their question at the top of a piece of paper and attach it to a clipboard. When everyone has their question ready, allow students to mingle and record their classmates’ answers. You can tie this writing activity to a math lesson and have each student create a graph of their results.

24. Write a story together

Pool your imaginations and write a whole-class story. Begin by writing the opening line on a piece of lined paper to get students started. Pass the paper to a student and have them read your sentence, then write the next one. Continue around the class, not talking about the story but letting each student read it for themself, until the last student has contributed. When the story is complete, read it aloud for everyone to hear. To keep students busy when it’s not their turn, have them read or work on an assignment.

25. Make lists

Have students pull out their writing journals and ask them a question. For example, “What are your…” 10 action movie characters, 25 favorite foods to eat, 12 favorite animals, places you’d like to visit, etc.? Alternatively, have students brainstorm ideas for topics to write about in their free time.

What are your best tips for getting students back to paper and pencil? Please add to the comments below.

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How to Teach Handwriting—and Why It Matters

Teaching young students how to write by hand before moving on to keyboarding can help improve their reading fluency as well.

Technology is an undeniable fact of everyday life and can support students’ learning. But there are limits to that: Completely replacing handwriting instruction with keyboarding instruction in elementary school can be detrimental to students’ literacy acquisition. Why are handwriting and letter formation so important?

Research has demonstrated a correlation between letter-naming and letter-writing fluency, and a relationship between letter-naming fluency and successful reading development. There’s a strong connection between the hand and the neural circuitry of the brain—as students learn to better write the critical features of letters, they also learn to recognize them more fluently . This recognition of letters leads to greater letter-writing fluency, which leads to greater overall reading development.

In an article summarizing several studies on handwriting and learning , the writer Maria Konnikova notes, “Not only do we learn letters better when we commit them to memory through writing, memory and learning ability in general may benefit.” When students write letters manually, they learn them more effectively. Switching to keyboarding before students have developed handwriting skills may reduce their ability to recognize letters. Konnikova also cites a study that found that students who wrote by hand—as opposed to on a keyboard—were able to generate more ideas. Students with better handwriting demonstrated “increased overall activation in the reading and writing networks” of the brain.

How to Teach Handwriting

Learning how to print is a developmentally appropriate first step of handwriting instruction for students in grades pre-K to 2, in terms of their fine motor skills. Handwriting instruction does not require a big time investment: Brief lessons and frequent feedback for students can be incorporated in all areas of the curriculum throughout the school day.

There are four main aspects of handwriting instruction: pencil grasp, formation, legibility, and pacing.

Pencil grasp: When it comes to how a child holds a pencil, there are correct and incorrect grasps . The correct grasps—in which the index finger and thumb hold the pencil against the middle finger—result in comfortable and efficient handwriting, while incorrect grasps can cause poor letter formation and fatigue.

A student with a poor pencil grasp may benefit from using tools such as a pencil grip or from wrapping a rubber band around the ring finger and pinkie—not too tightly!—to fold them against the hand. You can also teach the “pinch and flip” trick: The student places the pencil with the writing end facing her, pinches the pencil between the thumb and index finger, and flips the pencil into the correct position.

Formation: This refers to how a student goes about forming letters. Straight lines are easier for students to write than curved ones, so it’s developmentally appropriate to teach students to write capital letters before moving on to lowercase ones.

It’s critical that handwriting instruction be integrated with phonics instruction: As students learn how to write the letters, they should also be learning and practicing the sounds that the letters make. Handwriting and dictation activities are the cornerstone of any multisensory phonics instruction program, as requiring students to consistently practice forming the letters while connecting them to sounds will serve to better embed phonics concepts in the brain.

For students who struggle with letter formation, explicit instruction is particularly important. Students should be taught to start their letters at the top (or middle, as is the case with some lowercase letters), and use continuous strokes as much as possible. Some letters will require them to lift up their pencils, and they should be taught when to do this. Using lined paper is helpful, as is giving students a variety of visual aids: arrow cues for stroke direction, dots for starting points, dotted letters for tracing, etc. Students also benefit from “skywriting” letters—tracing letters in the air with an index finger while holding their arm straight out.

The letters b , d , p , and q are often confused by younger students. Teaching the correct formation of these letters can help diminish the confusion, as they have different starting points— b , for instance, starts from the top, whereas d starts in the middle. Internalizing the motor patterns for these letters can help make recognition more automatic.

Legibility: An important factor impacting legibility is spacing between words. It’s helpful to encourage students to use a “finger space” between words—right-handed students can put an index finger on the line after one word before writing the next one. This technique doesn’t work for left-handed students, who will benefit from using a narrow tongue depressor as a spacing tool.

Pacing: If students are using an appropriate pencil grasp and forming letters correctly, that will often solve any pacing challenges. Another factor to consider when looking at pacing is the press: Students should not be pressing the pencil down on the paper too hard as they write because doing so can lead to writing fatigue and a greatly reduced rate of letter production. But if they press too lightly, it can be a sign of weak muscles or inappropriate pencil grasp. Encourage students to write with a variety of materials (markers, short pencils, crayons, erasable markers on whiteboards) to help them adjust how hard they press.

School days are packed with instructional priorities, and it can be easy to let handwriting fall by the wayside. However, with just a few minutes a day, students’ letter formation skills can improve, leading to positive outcomes for overall literacy development.

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Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning

Jonathan Lambert

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand.

The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page is becoming a relic of the past in our screen-dominated world, where text messages and thumb-typed grocery lists have replaced handwritten letters and sticky notes. Electronic keyboards offer obvious efficiency benefits that have undoubtedly boosted our productivity — imagine having to write all your emails longhand.

To keep up, many schools are introducing computers as early as preschool, meaning some kids may learn the basics of typing before writing by hand.

But giving up this slower, more tactile way of expressing ourselves may come at a significant cost, according to a growing body of research that's uncovering the surprising cognitive benefits of taking pen to paper, or even stylus to iPad — for both children and adults.

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In kids, studies show that tracing out ABCs, as opposed to typing them, leads to better and longer-lasting recognition and understanding of letters. Writing by hand also improves memory and recall of words, laying down the foundations of literacy and learning. In adults, taking notes by hand during a lecture, instead of typing, can lead to better conceptual understanding of material.

"There's actually some very important things going on during the embodied experience of writing by hand," says Ramesh Balasubramaniam , a neuroscientist at the University of California, Merced. "It has important cognitive benefits."

While those benefits have long been recognized by some (for instance, many authors, including Jennifer Egan and Neil Gaiman , draft their stories by hand to stoke creativity), scientists have only recently started investigating why writing by hand has these effects.

A slew of recent brain imaging research suggests handwriting's power stems from the relative complexity of the process and how it forces different brain systems to work together to reproduce the shapes of letters in our heads onto the page.

Your brain on handwriting

Both handwriting and typing involve moving our hands and fingers to create words on a page. But handwriting, it turns out, requires a lot more fine-tuned coordination between the motor and visual systems. This seems to more deeply engage the brain in ways that support learning.

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"Handwriting is probably among the most complex motor skills that the brain is capable of," says Marieke Longcamp , a cognitive neuroscientist at Aix-Marseille Université.

Gripping a pen nimbly enough to write is a complicated task, as it requires your brain to continuously monitor the pressure that each finger exerts on the pen. Then, your motor system has to delicately modify that pressure to re-create each letter of the words in your head on the page.

"Your fingers have to each do something different to produce a recognizable letter," says Sophia Vinci-Booher , an educational neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University. Adding to the complexity, your visual system must continuously process that letter as it's formed. With each stroke, your brain compares the unfolding script with mental models of the letters and words, making adjustments to fingers in real time to create the letters' shapes, says Vinci-Booher.

That's not true for typing.

To type "tap" your fingers don't have to trace out the form of the letters — they just make three relatively simple and uniform movements. In comparison, it takes a lot more brainpower, as well as cross-talk between brain areas, to write than type.

Recent brain imaging studies bolster this idea. A study published in January found that when students write by hand, brain areas involved in motor and visual information processing " sync up " with areas crucial to memory formation, firing at frequencies associated with learning.

"We don't see that [synchronized activity] in typewriting at all," says Audrey van der Meer , a psychologist and study co-author at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She suggests that writing by hand is a neurobiologically richer process and that this richness may confer some cognitive benefits.

Other experts agree. "There seems to be something fundamental about engaging your body to produce these shapes," says Robert Wiley , a cognitive psychologist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "It lets you make associations between your body and what you're seeing and hearing," he says, which might give the mind more footholds for accessing a given concept or idea.

Those extra footholds are especially important for learning in kids, but they may give adults a leg up too. Wiley and others worry that ditching handwriting for typing could have serious consequences for how we all learn and think.

What might be lost as handwriting wanes

The clearest consequence of screens and keyboards replacing pen and paper might be on kids' ability to learn the building blocks of literacy — letters.

"Letter recognition in early childhood is actually one of the best predictors of later reading and math attainment," says Vinci-Booher. Her work suggests the process of learning to write letters by hand is crucial for learning to read them.

"When kids write letters, they're just messy," she says. As kids practice writing "A," each iteration is different, and that variability helps solidify their conceptual understanding of the letter.

Research suggests kids learn to recognize letters better when seeing variable handwritten examples, compared with uniform typed examples.

This helps develop areas of the brain used during reading in older children and adults, Vinci-Booher found.

"This could be one of the ways that early experiences actually translate to long-term life outcomes," she says. "These visually demanding, fine motor actions bake in neural communication patterns that are really important for learning later on."

Ditching handwriting instruction could mean that those skills don't get developed as well, which could impair kids' ability to learn down the road.

"If young children are not receiving any handwriting training, which is very good brain stimulation, then their brains simply won't reach their full potential," says van der Meer. "It's scary to think of the potential consequences."

Many states are trying to avoid these risks by mandating cursive instruction. This year, California started requiring elementary school students to learn cursive , and similar bills are moving through state legislatures in several states, including Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin. (So far, evidence suggests that it's the writing by hand that matters, not whether it's print or cursive.)

Slowing down and processing information

For adults, one of the main benefits of writing by hand is that it simply forces us to slow down.

During a meeting or lecture, it's possible to type what you're hearing verbatim. But often, "you're not actually processing that information — you're just typing in the blind," says van der Meer. "If you take notes by hand, you can't write everything down," she says.

The relative slowness of the medium forces you to process the information, writing key words or phrases and using drawing or arrows to work through ideas, she says. "You make the information your own," she says, which helps it stick in the brain.

Such connections and integration are still possible when typing, but they need to be made more intentionally. And sometimes, efficiency wins out. "When you're writing a long essay, it's obviously much more practical to use a keyboard," says van der Meer.

Still, given our long history of using our hands to mark meaning in the world, some scientists worry about the more diffuse consequences of offloading our thinking to computers.

"We're foisting a lot of our knowledge, extending our cognition, to other devices, so it's only natural that we've started using these other agents to do our writing for us," says Balasubramaniam.

It's possible that this might free up our minds to do other kinds of hard thinking, he says. Or we might be sacrificing a fundamental process that's crucial for the kinds of immersive cognitive experiences that enable us to learn and think at our full potential.

Balasubramaniam stresses, however, that we don't have to ditch digital tools to harness the power of handwriting. So far, research suggests that scribbling with a stylus on a screen activates the same brain pathways as etching ink on paper. It's the movement that counts, he says, not its final form.

Jonathan Lambert is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance journalist who covers science, health and policy.

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Printable Lined Writing Paper for Teaching Kids Handwriting

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Are you looking for a writing paper printable to download and print? While you can pick up lined writing paper at your local store, sometimes you can’t find the exact type of writing paper you’re looking for. After all, kids at different stages of writing need different line heights.

Young children in kindergarten or first grade usually need a type of paper that has a dotted line down the middle. This helps younger students write their letters correctly.

Older kids in middle school and high school are ready to move on to narrow-lined paper.

Don’t worry! I went searching for printable writing paper that you can download and use with your children. You’ll find a big selection of printable lined paper below that you can download and print for your children to use.

Double-Spaced Lined Handwriting Paper 

Young children just learning how to properly form their letters learn best with double-spaced lined handwriting paper. The dotted line through the middle gives elementary students the help they need making lowercase and uppercase letters the correct height. it also allows kids to know where they should start forming the letter.

If your child is just beginning to write, be sure to sit down next to your child and walk them through correct letter formation. Gently correcting mistakes at the beginning is the best way to prevent bad handwriting later on down the road.

Double-spaced lined writing paper to download

So if you’re looking for free printable kindergarten writing paper in different formats you’ve come to the right place!

Double-Spaced Lined Writing Paper

Double-Spaced Paper – This lined white handwriting paper is perfect for kids in the 1st or 2nd grade to use for writing. The dotted midline gives kids a guide to proper letter formation. This paper is great for creative writing and other school projects. The PDF format is for downloadable portrait lined paper.

Landscape Writing Paper

Landscape Writing Paper – Print off this free printable handwriting paper if you have a preschool or kindergarten-age child. The paper features row heights that are one inch apart giving kids plenty of space to practice their writing skills.

Writing Paper in Landscape – This style of landscape writing paper gives children plenty of space between the rows.

Notebooking Lined Writing Paper

Writing Paper with Box – The center guide lines down the middle of each line are a great way to give kids a visual cue on how to form their letters. Plus, this printable template features a picture box. The blank space is a fun way to encourage kids to illustrate their stories while developing fine motor skills.

Single-Spaced Lined Writing paper

As kids get older, they stop needing double-spaced handwriting paper to correctly write their letters. This is when you should consider switching over to single-spaced lined writing paper.

You’ll generally find two styles of single-spaced lined writing paper: wide lines and college-spaced.

Wide Ruled Lined Writing Paper

The wide lines allow kids in elementary school and middle school to have plenty of room to form their letters without the distraction of a line in the middle. 

These printable pdf files of lined paper are great to hand to children who need to write a book report or even just jot a quick note to a penpal.

You can quickly print off the paper you need instead of purchasing a large amount of paper when you only need one or two sheets.

Be sure to look below to see the various pdfs of lined paper with wide lines.

Printable Paper Templates Feature Wide Lines

Paper designs with wide lines give children just learning how to write plenty of room to form their letters. The templates below use a standard US letter paper size making it easy to print the wide ruled paper in either portrait or landscape. Paper with wide lines is perfect to use with kids between the 3rd grade and the 5th grade.

Portrait Wide-Rule Lined Paper

Wide Rule Lined Paper – If you’re looking for free printables of lined paper, be sure to check this one out. It features blue lines and a red margin similar to regular notebook paper. 

​Landscape Wide Ruled Lined Paper

Landscape Wide Ruled Lined Paper – This printable template supports children’s independent work as it includes a red line marking the margin. In addition, the landscape format gives children plenty of room to write without running out of space.

Extra-Wide Ruled Lined Paper

Extra-Wide Ruled Lined Paper  – Are you looking for single-lined letter writing paper that gives children plenty of room to form each letter? Then you will want to download this template. it’s an easy way to help your kids transition from double-lined paper to single-lined paper.

Writing Paper With Picture Box

Wide-Ruled Writing Paper with Picture Box – Writing paper with a picture box is a great way to augment your homeschool. Your children can use the paper to write and illustrate a short story. They can also use the paper for other subjects like social studies. Just have your kid write a paragraph about what they studied and then draw a picture about the topic. It’s a lovely introduction to notebooking .

College-Ruled Paper

College-ruled paper is designed for older students in high school and college. These students no longer need wide lines to give them plenty of room to form their letters. Instead, the narrow lines allow students to put more information on each page, saving paper. If you’re curious, the lines on college-ruled paper are 9/32 of an inch apart or 7.1mm.

Below you will find a collection of college-ruled papers for you to download and print.

Portrait College Ruled Paper

Portrait College Ruled Paper – If you’re looking for regular notebook-style paper to download and print, this is the paper for you. It features blue lines running down the sheet of paper and a red line to mark the margin on the left side.

Landscape College Ruled Paper

Landscape College Ruled Paper  – This printable template features landscape college ruled paper with a red line to mark the margin on the left-hand side.

Themed Paper

There are times when you will want to print off themed lined paper for your kids or yourself to use. Themed lined paper is great for writing short stories or researching special events like Valentine’s Day or Easter.

The themed lined paper is also fun for kids to use as stationary when they’re writing to family, friends, and pen pals.

The paper below features black and white images to allow kids the opportunity to color the images and add a personal touch to their paper.

• Spring Lined Paper
• Summer Lined Paper
• Fall Lined Paper
• Winter Lined Paper
• Unicorn Lined Paper
• Valentine’s Day Lined Paper
• St. Patrick’s Day Lined Paper
• Easter Lined Paper

Printable Writing Paper

As you’re looking for printable lined writing paper for your children to download and use, be sure to consider printing off paper with fun images. the paper will help keep your kids engaged with their writing while also allowing them to color the cute images.

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