Pre-Writing Worksheets
Before children write letters, they need to control a pencil along straight lines, slants, curves and circles. Every letter is built from these simple strokes, so tracing them is the best warm-up for handwriting.
Fourteen kinds of lines, from simple straight lines to loops. Work through them roughly in order — each one is a little trickier than the last.
Tracing shapes teaches children to change direction smoothly and to close a shape where it began — both important for letters like o, a and d.
