Cursive Letter Connections Worksheets
Practice connecting letters — the key cursive skill. Two sheets so far, 16 ruled lines of practice between them, written for grade 2.
- Grades
- Grade 2, Grade 3
- Exercise types
- Pair Tracing, Common Blends, Transition Practice
Grade 2
Cursive "sh" Connection Worksheet — Grade 2
Pair-tracing worksheet for Grade 2 students practicing the cursive sh connection through guided trace, copy, and freewrite exercises.
Cursive th Connection Worksheet — Grade 2 Pair Tracing
Six pair-tracing exercises for second graders practicing the cursive th connection, from guided letter models through word copying and free writing.
What is published under letter connections
Two of the 30 connections this site teaches have a sheet: sh and th. The remaining 28 are queued in the same order they are listed in the catalog, starting with ch, wh, ph, an and in.
A connection sheet is not a letter sheet with two letters on it. Neither letter is new by the time a student reaches one; the exercise is the join, and specifically not lifting the pencil across it. Connections after o, b, v, w (overcurve exit) are hardest — which is why the 30 pairs here are not the 30 most common in English, but the ones where the exit stroke gives the most trouble.
Where this fits in the sequence
Cursive is taught in stroke families rather than alphabetical order, and letter connections sits at a particular point in that run: the undercurve letters (i, t, u, w) come first, then the loop family (e, l, h, f, k, b), the oval family (a, c, d, o, g, q), the slant letters (n, m, v, x, y, z) and finally the mixed strokes (r, s, j, p).
Letter Connections is stage 3 of 7 in that sequence. Lowercase Letters and Uppercase Letters come first and should be comfortable before this page is much use. Word Practice, Sentence Practice, Paragraph Practice and Themed Worksheets come after.
These sheets are written for grade 2 and grade 3 and exercise pair tracing, common blends and transition practice. Every one prints on US Letter or A4 with four-rule guided lines — solid topline, dashed midline, solid baseline, dashed descender — so letter height stays consistent from the first sheet to the last.