Cursive Letter e Worksheet — Trace and Practice
A Grade 1 cursive handwriting worksheet focused on lowercase e, with model, tracing, and copy exercises using age-appropriate practice words.
This worksheet gives first graders focused practice on the cursive lowercase letter e, one of the most common letters in written English. The letter e belongs to the loop-letter family and begins with a small undercurve from the baseline before looping back at the midline. Getting this shape right matters because e appears in countless words and connects smoothly to many other letters. Students begin by studying the model letterform, then trace both spaced and joined repetitions to feel the rhythm of the stroke. Copy exercises let them build independence on ruled lines, and familiar words reinforce the letter in a real reading context. Use this sheet in one sitting or spread it across two short practice sessions.
Cursive Letter e Worksheet — Trace and Practice
Look at the letter e at the top. Trace each letter with your pencil, then copy it on the blank lines below.
Study this model of cursive e and note where it starts and ends.
Trace each letter e, lifting your pencil between each one.
Trace these joined e letters to practice the connecting exit stroke.
Copy the letter e across both lines, keeping your loops even.
Copy each word carefully, forming every e with a closed loop.
Write the letter e from memory, filling both lines.
How to form these letters
- Start at the baseline and swing up with an undercurve toward the midline.
- At the midline, loop left and curve around to close the body of the letter.
- Finish with an undercurve exit stroke at the baseline, ready to join the next letter.
What the sheet asks the hand to do
Cursive Letter e Worksheet — Trace and Practice prints six blocks onto one side, with eight ruled lines. One of a model to study, two of tracing, two of copying and one of free writing. The order is deliberate: a model to look at, then a traced line where the shape is already there, then a copied line where it is not, and a final block with nothing printed at all. The support comes away one step at a time rather than all at once.
The words on Cursive Letter e Worksheet — Trace and Practice are eeeeeeee, nest, tree and best. They are short and they are ones a child at this grade can already read, which matters more than it sounds: 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 this model of cursive e and note where it starts and ends.", the last "Write the letter e from memory, filling both lines.". That is what lets the sheet be handed to a student who is working alone.
The e itself
e is taught in the second stroke family, alongside l, h, f, k and b — letters that share its opening movement, which is why they are taught together rather than in alphabetical order. In that teaching order it is the 5th of 26 lowercase letters, not the 5th as the alphabet would have it.
Like every lowercase letter it begins on the baseline and finishes with an exit stroke, because the exit is what the next letter is joined from — a e written correctly but stopped dead is a e that cannot be used in a word.
Where this one sits
Cursive Letter e Worksheet — Trace and Practice is one of 26 Lowercase Letters sheets here and one of 36 written for grade 1 (and pre-k/k). It is letter repetition work, and it suits grade 1 (and pre-k/k) and grade 2.
The closest things to Cursive Letter e Worksheet — Trace and Practice are Cursive Letter i Worksheet — Trace and Practice (grade 1) and Cursive Letter j Worksheet — Trace and Practice (grade 1). 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 midline loop closes fully — an open loop can make e look like an i or l.
- Students often make the loop too large. Guide them to keep the loop at the midline, not above it.
- The student is ready to move on when each e has a closed loop, a clear body, and a smooth exit stroke.
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