Cursive Letter w Worksheet — Trace and Practice
Grade 1 cursive worksheet focused on lowercase w. Students trace isolated letters, practice connected w repetitions, and copy words swim, wing, and wave.
This worksheet introduces cursive lowercase w, a member of the same stroke family as i, t, and u — letters built on a similar rhythmic motion. Practicing w matters because it appears frequently in everyday words, and mastering its twin-hump shape helps students understand how cursive letters connect smoothly. Start by having your student study the model letter, then work through the tracing exercises before moving to independent copying. Encourage a steady, relaxed pencil grip and an even rhythm as each overcurve swings up to the midline and back. Once your student can copy the practice words swim, wing, and wave with consistent letter height and a clean exit stroke, they are ready to use w in connected cursive writing.
Cursive Letter w Worksheet — Trace and Practice
Look at the model letter w. Trace each letter carefully, then copy the words on the blank lines below.
Study this model of cursive lowercase w before you begin.
Trace each letter w, following the strokes carefully.
Trace these connected w letters and feel how the exit stroke leads into the next w.
Copy the letter w across both lines, keeping your strokes even.
Copy these words that contain w on the lines below.
Write the letter w from memory, filling both lines.
How to form these letters
- Begin at the baseline with an overcurve stroke, arcing up to the midline and curving back down to the baseline.
- Continue the pencil in the same motion, making a second matching overcurve-down sweep to complete the twin-hump shape.
- Finish with a smooth undercurve exit stroke from the baseline up to the midline, ready to join the next letter.
What the sheet asks the hand to do
Cursive Letter w 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 w Worksheet — Trace and Practice are wwwwwwww, swim, wing and wave. 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 lowercase w before you begin.", the last "Write the letter w from memory, filling both lines.". That is what lets the sheet be handed to a student who is working alone.
The w itself
w is taught in the first stroke family, alongside i, t and u — 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 4th of 26 lowercase letters, not the 23rd as the alphabet would have it.
It starts with an overcurve from the top, so the entry stroke is where most of the correcting happens. 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 w written correctly but stopped dead is a w that cannot be used in a word.
Where this one sits
Cursive Letter w 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 w Worksheet — Trace and Practice are Cursive Letter x Worksheet — Trace and Practice (grade 1) and Cursive Letter y 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 both humps of the w reach the midline equally — uneven humps are the most common error at this stage.
- Students often make w too wide. Encourage a narrow, rhythmic motion so both strokes stay consistent between the lines.
- The student is ready to move on when w looks even across a full line and the exit stroke flows smoothly into the next letter.
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