Cursive fluency worksheets
Printable fourth-grade cursive worksheets: a tricky joins chart, joins practice, copying words, names and places with a signature, copying sentences and paragraphs, print to cursive and timed cursive writing.
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Tricky Joins Chart
Six things that make cursive smooth and easy to read: joins after b, o, v and w, loops, tails, lifting to dot and cross, capitals and spaces between words, each with a model.
Tricky Joins Practice
Joins like oa, br, ve and wi with a word that uses each one, like boat, zebra, river and winter, to copy from the model. Fewer, Standard or More give 6, 8 or 10 lines.
Copy the Words
Longer words like breakfast, volcano and yesterday shown once in cursive, to copy twice with no tracing. Fewer, Standard or More give 7, 9 or 11 words.
Names and Places
Two names, two days, two months and two states to copy in cursive, plus a box to practice signing your own name.
Copy the Sentence
Longer sentences like "Quentin practices piano every afternoon." shown in cursive, to copy with no tracing. Fewer, Standard or More give 4, 5 or 6 sentences.
Copy the Paragraph
Six short paragraphs, like "Snow Day" and "The Night Sky," shown in cursive with lines to copy them.
Print to Cursive
Sentences in regular print to write in cursive with no model. Fewer, Standard or More give 5, 6 or 8 sentences; More uses smaller lines.
Timed Cursive Writing
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," which uses every letter of the alphabet, to copy as many times as you can in 2 minutes, with a word count and a neatness checklist.
Print the whole packet
One copy of every sheet above, in order. Tap + for more copies (up to 10).
For the parent or teacher
What it is
Cursive fluency is writing in cursive smoothly and neatly enough that it's easy to read, without stopping to think about each letter. In 3rd grade, students learn the letters and trace words and sentences. These pages move on to copying from a model, turning print into cursive and writing for speed. They use the same traditional US school cursive style as 3rd grade. Common Core doesn't cover cursive, so these sheets have no Common Core code.
What comes next
The 3rd grade Cursive letters topic has a page for every letter, if your student needs to review how a letter is formed.
How to teach it
- Teach in order or jump to whatever your student needs. A student may write some letters smoothly and still be building others.
- Start with the Tricky Joins Chart, and practice the joins after b, o, v and w.
- Copy from a model first, then try writing from print with no model.
- Look at neatness before speed. Letters should sit on the baseline and lean the same way.
- Have your student write something they care about in cursive, like a note, a card or their name.
Common mistakes
- Dropping down to the baseline after b, o, v or w, which makes the next letter look wrong.
- Lifting the pencil in the middle of a word.
- Crowding words together with no space between them.
- Rushing so much that the writing gets hard to read.