Cursive Letter i Worksheet — Trace and Practice
A Grade 1 cursive worksheet focused on lowercase i, with guided tracing, connected repetitions, word practice, and freewriting for young learners.
Lowercase cursive i is the first letter students encounter in the undercurve stroke family, making it the ideal starting point for early cursive instruction. Its simple path — a shallow undercurve rising to the midline, a slant returning to the baseline, and a crisp exit stroke — teaches the foundational rhythm that underlies many other cursive letters. Practicing i builds muscle memory for consistent letter height and proper exit strokes, both of which matter when letters begin to connect into words. Use this worksheet in sequence: study the model, trace the pale guide letters, then copy independently. Encourage a relaxed pencil grip and a steady, unhurried pace throughout each section.
Cursive Letter i Worksheet — Trace and Practice
Trace each letter carefully, then copy it on the blank lines. Take your time and try to match the shape.
Study this model of cursive i — notice where the stroke starts and ends.
Trace each letter carefully, following the shape of each stroke.
Trace the connected letters and feel how the exit stroke links them.
Copy the letter i across both lines, keeping each one the same size.
Copy each word, making sure your i has a clear exit stroke and dot.
Write the letter i on your own, as many times as you can.
How to form these letters
- Begin on the baseline and swing up with an undercurve to the midline, keeping the curve shallow.
- Slant back down to the baseline, then curve right into a small exit stroke that leads to the next letter.
- After writing the exit stroke, lift the pencil and add the dot just above the midline, centered over the letter.
What the sheet asks the hand to do
Cursive Letter i Worksheet — Trace and Practice is six blocks and 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 i Worksheet — Trace and Practice are iiiiiiii, sit, tip and mix. 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 i — notice where the stroke starts and ends.", the last "Write the letter i on your own, as many times as you can.". That is what lets the sheet be handed to a student who is working alone.
The i itself
i is taught in the first stroke family, alongside t, u and w — 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 1st of 26 lowercase letters, not the 9th 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 i written correctly but stopped dead is a i that cannot be used in a word.
Where this one sits
Cursive Letter i 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 tracing work, and it suits grade 1 (and pre-k/k) and grade 2.
The closest things to Cursive Letter i Worksheet — Trace and Practice are Cursive Letter v Worksheet — Trace and Practice (grade 1) and Cursive Letter w 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 undercurve does not go above the midline — a tall i often signals the student is rushing.
- A common error is forgetting the exit stroke; remind the student that every letter must end with a rightward curve so letters can connect.
- The student is ready to advance when the letter slant is consistent and the dot is placed neatly above, not beside, the letter body.
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