Penmanship – Handwriting

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While making some worksheets for little sister, I thought I would share some resources I have found to be useful.

Handwriting does not necessarily begin with the tracing or copying of letters. Fine motor skills need to be developed before accurate control of the pencil is achieved. Here are some pre-writing worksheets to encourage tracing and development of pencil control:

Donna Young Printing Readiness

Kidzone Pre-Printing Skills Practice

Preschool Learners Pre-Writing Worksheets

SEN Teacher Pre-writing Set 1 and Set 2

I always like to start teaching handwriting by using the child’s name. I make worksheets using a dotted font with lines, adding clip art or pictures to colour. If you search on Google for their favourite character, then select the Images tab, you should find a large variety. Either download the image to your computer to be used again, or copy and paste directly into the document.

There are many free fonts available on the net or you could just use your favourite (even the good old comic sans) and make it grey instead of black. It all depends on what style of handwriting you would like your child to develop, or what you are bound to in accordance with local home education authorities. Grr…

Free Handwriting Fonts

Jardotty

Learning Curve – cursive

National First

Primer Apples

Print Clearly

Trace Font

Zyia Learns Letters

Handwriting/Tracing Worksheets

Pre-made

There are many sites with pre-made alphabet and thematic tracer pages for example colours or days of the week.

Abcteach – tracing and letter practice worksheets in d’nealian and zaner bloser

Boggles World Alphabet Tracing Pages

Donna Young – different sizes of manuscript and cursive

First School Alphabet Handwriting Practice Sheets in Standard Block and D’Nealian, numbers, colours, days of the week, and months of the year with flowers

Handwriting for kids – also has a worksheet generator

Home Education Resources – reference sheets, print read colour, cursive. These are copywork rather than tracing.

Jan Brett Alphabet Tracers – traditional manuscript, cursive manuscript or modern manuscript all with beautiful illustrations

Learning Page has lots of worksheets – free to join and totally worth it!

Preschool Learners Handwriting Worksheets – helping your child to improve his handwriting, alphabet and rhyming words worksheets

Primary Games Activity pages – alphabet, numbers, colours and months of the year

PrintActivities.com – alphabet, numbers, shapes and names. They even have Aaliyah!

School Express Handwriting – alphabet and numbers in both modern and traditional

Sparklebox – lots of alphabet and number worksheets

Generators

These sites enable you to create worksheets using your own words.

Abcteach Handwriting Worksheet Maker

ESL Writing Wizard – search for other people’s pre-made worksheets also

Create tracing worksheets online

Handwriting for kids – also has pre-made worksheets

Online fun

Donna Young’s manuscript animations

Handwriting animations of the alphabet

Writing the alphabet and numbers