Letter Tracing Worksheets: Uppercase & Lowercase A–Z

Q: Can I get lowercase letter tracing worksheets?

Yes. In the builder, set Letters to lowercase and type the letters you want. The sheet rebuilds in lowercase as you type, with the same stroke-direction arrows and the same choice of how much help each row gives. UPPERCASE does the same for capitals, and As typed keeps whatever mix you enter, so Bb Dd prints a capital and a lowercase of each.

Q: What do the stroke direction arrows show?

Tick Show stroke direction and each letter gains a numbered dot where the pencil should start, plus an arrow for the way each stroke travels. It matters because a letter traced bottom-up can look correct on the page while teaching a motor pattern that slows writing down later.

Show stroke direction Adds a numbered start dot and arrows to every traced letter, so a child can see which way each stroke travels. Off by default, because a child who already forms letters correctly does not need them.

Pick a letter to trace

Tap a letter to open it. You get a full page of that one letter to trace, a large outline to print on its own, and a PNG you can download. The numbers 0 to 9 sit at the end of the row, so the same page works for number tracing.

Print the whole alphabet in one go

The practice sheet gives you a ruled A to Z and 0 to 9, with a model and trace space on every row. The outline alphabet gives you hollow letters to trace around, colour in, or cut out.

Build a sheet for the letters you are working on

Most weeks a child is on two or three letters, not all twenty-six. Type just those, pick how much help the sheet gives, and the page rebuilds as you type. Numbers work the same way: type 1 2 3 4 5 and the sheet traces them. Set Letters to lowercase for lowercase letter tracing, or UPPERCASE for capitals.

Letters or numbers to practise

Start by age optional shortcut

How much help the sheet gives nudge it up as they improve

Building at Level 2 · Bold dotted, thick, closely-spaced dots to join.

Letters Trace rows Solid model row on top

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Letter tracing worksheet sample: Aa as a solid model above dotted rows to trace on ruled handwriting lines

Everything is built in your browser and nothing is uploaded. Download PDF keeps a copy you can print any time.

Getting the most out of letter tracing

Start at the dot Where a stroke begins decides whether a letter is being written or drawn. Switch on stroke direction and the start dot is marked for you.
Few letters, often Two or three letters practised daily beats a full alphabet once a week. Build a sheet for just the letters in hand.
Drop the help early Move from dotted to dashed to a blank line as soon as they can manage it. Tracing forever is a habit, not progress.

Not sure which letters to teach first, or when tracing should stop? We wrote this up properly: which letters to start with, why start dots and stroke order matter, and moving from tracing to writing.

For a child working on their own name rather than the alphabet, the name tracing worksheet maker takes any name and builds the same sheet around it, one sheet per child for a whole class. Whole words and sentences are the handwriting worksheet generator. If you want joined letters instead of print, see the cursive alphabet, and for letters to colour in rather than trace, the bubble letters and alphabet colouring pages.

The method behind this: Where a letter starts and which way it travels matter more than how neat the finished shape is: Stroke Order, Start Dots and Arrows explains what a start dot is doing and when to drop it. For which letters to teach first, see First Letters.

Letter Tracing FAQ

Yes. In the builder, set Letters to lowercase and type the letters you want. The sheet rebuilds in lowercase as you type, with the same stroke-direction arrows and the same choice of how much help each row gives. UPPERCASE does the same for capitals, and As typed keeps whatever mix you enter, so Bb Dd prints a capital and a lowercase of each.

Tap a letter in the strip above to open a full page of that character, then use Download PDF on the panel. For the whole alphabet at once, use Download PDF beside the heading for ruled rows with a model on each, or Download PDF under Print size for hollow letters. To practise only certain letters, type them into the builder and print that instead.

Yes. There is no sign-up, no email, no watermark across the sheet and no limit on how many you print. Every sheet is drawn in your browser, so nothing you type is uploaded anywhere.

Tick Show stroke direction and each letter gains a numbered dot where the pencil should start, plus an arrow for the way each stroke travels. It matters because a letter traced bottom-up can look correct on the page while teaching a motor pattern that slows writing down later.

Yes, on the name tracing worksheet page, which takes a class list and prints one sheet per child with their own name. This page practises letters, so a sheet for the letters the class is on this week prints once and copies for everyone.

Uppercase usually comes first, because capitals are built from straight lines and simple curves that start at the top, which suits a hand still learning control. Lowercase follows once that is steady. There is a fuller answer in which letters to start with.

Yes. Tap any number from 0 to 9 at the end of the strip for a full page of that number to trace. The ruled sheet under Print the whole alphabet in one go ends with 0 to 9, and the builder takes numbers too: type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and print that.