Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2
Trace and copy 12 fall words in cursive, from leaf to brown, plus the sentence "The red leaves fall from the tree.", for grade 2. One printable page.
About this worksheet
A fall themed sheet for grade 2: 12 seasonal words (leaf, acorn, wind, apple, rake, cool, pumpkin, sweater, harvest, orange, yellow and brown) in two traced rows and two copied rows, one copied sentence, "The red leaves fall from the tree.", and 3 blank lines for the student's own fall sentence, 8 guided lines in all. Every word and the sentence were written for this sheet. Between them the fall words and sentence use 22 of the 26 lowercase letters, 7 of them tall (b, d, f, h, k, l, t) and 4 that drop below the baseline (f, g, p, y).
Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2
Trace the pale letters with your pencil. Then copy each word and the sentence on the blank lines. Finish with your own fall sentence.
Trace each fall word in cursive: leaf, acorn and wind.
Trace apple, rake and cool.
Copy pumpkin, sweater and harvest on the line below.
Copy orange, yellow and brown on the line below.
Copy this fall sentence on the line below.
Write your own sentence about fall in cursive.
How to form these letters
- The lowercase letter r appears 9 times here, as in "acorn". Undercurve to the midline, a tiny shoulder to the right, then a short downstroke and an undercurve exit.
- The lowercase letter o appears 7 times here, as in "acorn". Undercurve to the midline, close the oval, and exit from the top of the letter with a short bridge stroke.
- The lowercase letter p appears 4 times here, as in "apple". Undercurve to the midline, stem straight down below the baseline, retrace up and round a closed bowl at the midline.
What the sheet asks the hand to do
Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2 prints six blocks onto one side, with eight guided lines. Two of tracing, three of copying and one of free writing. The order is 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 Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2 are leaf, acorn, wind, apple, rake, cool, pumpkin, sweater, harvest, orange, yellow, brown, The and red, and four more: eighteen distinct words, averaging 4.9 letters, the longest "pumpkin" at 7 against a grade 2 limit of 8. 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 “Trace each fall word in cursive: leaf, acorn and wind.”, the last “Write your own sentence about fall in cursive.”. That is what lets the sheet be handed to a student who is working alone.
The text on the page
The text on Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2 runs to 19 words, averaging 4.8 letters each, with "pumpkin" the longest of them. That is the number that decides whether a sheet is a warm-up or a session: at this stage a child's hand tires before their attention does, and a page of long words tires it faster than a page of many short ones.
Between them the rows on Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2 use twenty-two of the twenty-six lowercase letters — a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w and y. Seven of them are tall letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t), which is what makes the ruled height on this sheet matter, and four drop below the baseline (f, g, p, y), so the descender space is in use too.
Where this one sits
Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2 is one of four Themed Worksheets sheets here and one of sixteen written for grade 2. It is mixed work, and it suits grade 2 and grade 3.
The closest things to Fall Cursive Practice for Grade 2 are Thanksgiving Cursive Practice for Grade 4 (grade 4) and Back to School Cursive Practice for Grade 1 (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
- The 12 fall words (leaf, acorn, wind, apple, rake, cool, pumpkin, sweater, harvest, orange, yellow and brown) are the vocabulary a grade 2 student meets in the season; the sheet is a chance to write words the student wants to write.
- Watch that the pencil lifts only between words, not between letters, on the sentence "The red leaves fall from the tree."
- Ready to move on when the copied words sit on the baseline and the freewrite sentence about fall is joined all the way through each word.
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