Cursive Family Words Worksheet — Grade 4
Nine family words for grade 4 in cursive: mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, uncle, grandma, grandpa and aunt. Copied from a model. Free printable PDF.
About this worksheet
This grade 4 word sheet puts 9 family words in front of the student, mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, uncle, grandma, grandpa and aunt, across 5 blocks and 9 guided lines. The first group (mother, father and sister) is traced as a warm-up and then every group is copied from a printed model. Between them the grade 4 family words use 18 of the 26 lowercase letters, 6 of them tall (b, d, f, h, l, t) and 3 that drop below the baseline (f, g, p).
Cursive Family Words Worksheet — Grade 4
Trace the first row once, then copy each group of words on the blank lines. Keep all the letters in a word connected.
Warm up: trace mother, father and sister once.
Copy mother, father and sister on the lines below.
Copy brother, cousin and uncle on the lines below.
Copy grandma, grandpa and aunt on the lines below.
Write the names of three people in your family in cursive.
How to form these letters
- The lowercase letter r appears 7 times here, as in "mother". Undercurve to the midline, a tiny shoulder to the right, then a short downstroke and an undercurve exit.
- The lowercase letter o appears 3 times here, as in "mother". Undercurve to the midline, close the oval, and exit from the top of the letter with a short bridge stroke.
- The lowercase letter s appears 3 times here, as in "sister". Undercurve to the midline, curve back down to the left, close against the stroke at the baseline and exit forward.
What the sheet asks the hand to do
There are five blocks on Cursive Family Words Worksheet, nine guided lines between them. One 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 Cursive Family Words Worksheet are mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, uncle, grandma, grandpa and aunt: nine distinct words, averaging 6.0 letters, the longest "brother" at 7 against a grade 4 limit of 12. 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 “Warm up: trace mother, father and sister once.”, the last “Write the names of three people in your family 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 Cursive Family Words Worksheet runs to 9 words, averaging 6.0 letters each, with "brother" 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 Family Words Worksheet use eighteen of the twenty-six lowercase letters — a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t and u. Six of them are tall letters (b, d, f, h, l, t), which is what makes the ruled height on this sheet matter, and three drop below the baseline (f, g, p), so the descender space is in use too.
Where this one sits
Cursive Family Words Worksheet is one of nine Word Practice sheets here and one of fourteen written for grade 4. It is word copying work, and it suits grade 4 and grade 5.
The closest things to Cursive Family Words Worksheet are Cursive Animal Words Worksheet (grade 2) and Cursive Color Words Worksheet (grade 2). 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 nine words here (mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, uncle, grandma, grandpa and aunt) average 6.0 letters. Watch that the pencil lifts only between words, never inside one.
- Word spacing is the thing to check on a word sheet: one fingertip between mother and father, and the same gap all the way along the row.
- Ready to move on when all nine family words are written with every letter joined and the baseline held from mother to aunt.
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