Cursive Capitals A to I Review — Grade 3
Grade 3 review of cursive capitals A to I: the row of 9 letters traced and copied, then 9 capitalized words that start with them. Free printable PDF.
About this worksheet
A grade 3 review of the 9 cursive capitals A through I, in 6 blocks and 9 guided lines. The full row is traced once and copied twice, then 9 capitalized words (Anna, Dana, Gina, Ben, Emma, Hannah, Carla, France and India) put each capital in front of lowercase letters, where height and slant have to match. D and F are the capitals in this set that do not join to the next letter.
Cursive Capitals A to I Review — Grade 3
Trace the row of capitals, then copy it. Trace and copy the names, starting each one with its capital letter.
Trace the capitals A through I in one row, in order.
Copy the row of capitals A to I on the blank lines.
Trace these names, starting each with its capital.
Copy these names on the blank lines.
Trace these names, keeping every capital at full height.
Write the capitals A through I from memory, in order.
How to form these letters
- A: Start just below the topline with an overcurve, swing down and around into a large oval, then retrace down to the baseline and exit.
- E: Begin just below the topline with a loop, curve left to a small middle loop at the midline, then curve left again to the baseline and exit.
- Of the 9 capitals here, D and F do not join to the letter that follows; the rest exit into the next letter without a pencil lift.
See every letter at once on the cursive alphabet chart, uppercase and lowercase, in the same cursive face.
What the sheet asks the hand to do
There are six blocks on Cursive Capitals A to I Review, nine guided lines between them. Three of tracing, two 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 Cursive Capitals A to I Review are Anna, Dana, Gina, Ben, Emma, Hannah, Carla, France and India: nine distinct words, averaging 4.6 letters, the longest "Hannah" at 6 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 “Trace the capitals A through I in one row, in order.”, the last “Write the capitals A through I from memory, in order.”. That is what lets the sheet be handed to a student who is working alone.
The text on the page
The text on Cursive Capitals A to I Review runs to 9 words, averaging 4.6 letters each, with "Hannah" 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 Cursive Capitals A to I Review use ten of the twenty-six lowercase letters — a, c, d, e, h, i, l, m, n and r. Three of them are tall letters (d, h, l), which is what makes the ruled height on this sheet matter, and nothing drops below the baseline.
Where this one sits
Cursive Capitals A to I Review is one of 29 Uppercase Letters sheets here and one of fourteen written for grade 3. It is letter tracing work, and it suits grade 3 and grade 4.
The closest things to Cursive Capitals A to I Review are Cursive Capital G Worksheet — Trace and Practice (grade 1) and Cursive Capital H 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
- This is a review sheet: the 9 capitals A to I were each taught on their own grade 1 sheet, and the job now is keeping them the same height and slant side by side.
- The capitalized words Anna, Dana, Gina, Ben, Emma, Hannah, Carla, France and India start with 9 different capitals. A capital that looks right alone but wrong in a name is usually too wide; compare its width with the lowercase letters after it.
- Ready to move on when the row A to I comes out from memory in order, all at the topline, with no letter twice the width of its neighbor.
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