Cursive "ve" Connection Worksheet — Grade 3
Grade 3 bridge-join sheet for the cursive ve connection: trace and copy the pair, then six ve words. Free printable PDF on one page.
About this worksheet
This grade 3 sheet isolates the ve join in 6 blocks and 8 guided lines: a model, a tracing row, a copy row, then 6 words (give, have, five, over, seven and never) that each contain ve. Because v exits at the midline, ve is a bridge join, and the six words all practice that high entry into e. ve is number 25 of the 30 connections this site teaches.
Cursive "ve" Connection Worksheet — Grade 3
Trace each letter pair slowly and carefully. Then copy the words on the blank lines below without lifting your pencil inside a word.
Study how v and e join in one smooth stroke.
Trace each ve pair without lifting your pencil.
Copy the ve pair on the lines below.
Trace these words that contain ve.
Copy these ve words on the lines below.
Write your own ve words on the lines below.
How to form these letters
- For v, overcurve to the midline, come down in a point, swing back up and exit from the top with a bridge stroke.
- For e, undercurve to the midline, loop back over the stroke you just made, and swing down to the baseline exit.
- v exits from the top, at the midline, so the join to e is a short bridge stroke across the top rather than an undercurve from the baseline; e starts higher than usual.
What the sheet asks the hand to do
Cursive "ve" Connection Worksheet prints six blocks onto one side, with eight guided lines. One of a model to study, two of tracing, two of copying and one of free writing. The order is a model to look at, a traced row where the shape is already there, a copied row where it is not and a blank block with nothing printed at all, so the support comes away one step at a time rather than all at once.
The words on Cursive "ve" Connection Worksheet are give, have, five, over, seven and never: six distinct words, averaging 4.3 letters, the longest "seven" at 5 against a grade 3 limit of 10. Word length is the number to check before printing: a handwriting sheet that makes a student decode a word first is testing two things and reporting one.
Each block carries its own instruction rather than one set of directions at the top — the first reads “Study how v and e join in one smooth stroke.”, the last “Write your own ve words on the lines below.”. That is what lets the sheet be handed to a student who is working alone.
The ve itself
ve is the 25th of the 30 connections this site teaches, and the join is the whole exercise — neither letter is new by the time a student meets it here. It starts on v, which exits from the top rather than the baseline, and connections after o, b, v, w (overcurve exit) are hardest. ve is on the site's list of the hardest joins for exactly that reason.
Where this one sits
Cursive "ve" Connection Worksheet is one of ten Letter Connections sheets here and one of fourteen written for grade 3. It is transition practice work, and it suits grade 3 and grade 4.
The closest things to Cursive "ve" Connection Worksheet are Cursive "in" Connection Worksheet (grade 2) and Cursive "ll" Connection Worksheet (grade 2). Cursive is one of the few subjects where doing the next sheet the same day is usually wrong — the hand needs the gap more than the head does — so those are the ones for tomorrow rather than for the rest of this session.
Notes for the grown-up
- Watch that the student does not lift the pencil between v and e. A break in the line at ve means the connection was not made.
- The ve join is one of the bridge joins after v: the most common error is dropping to the baseline before e, which turns the bridge into an ordinary undercurve and leaves a gap at the top of v.
- Ready to move on when ve is evenly spaced and joined smoothly in all six words, give, have, five, over, seven and never.
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