Cursive
Cursive is having a second act: a wave of state legislation has put it back on the report card, and parents are the ones fielding the homework. ChartGlade's cursive section keeps it simple — one clean chart, one tracing strip, and the teaching notes that make practice actually work.
How to Write in Cursive
The six-step front door: posture and grip, the four basic strokes, lowercase by stroke family, joins, words, sentences — with a practice sheet that prints the whole sequence.
Cursive Alphabet
Uppercase and lowercase A-Z in one continuous script, with a light-gray tracing strip and the stroke families letters are taught in.
Name Tracing Generator
Type any name and print a tracing worksheet — print or cursive letters, with gray trace rows, hollow outlines or a wipe-and-write fade on one letter page.
Cursive Sentences
Eight public-domain American quotes — Lincoln, Longfellow, Paine — with a gray trace row, a hollow outline row, then write solo. Prints on two letter pages.
States That Require Cursive
A 50-state tracker of cursive requirements — 19 states by law, 8 more by standards, with bill numbers and sources. Updated October 2026.
Every letter, its own page
One page per letter — capital and lowercase stroke by stroke, the #1 mistake to watch for, and a trace-and-write practice sheet that prints on one letter page:
What you need to know before printing
Third grade is the most common year for formal cursive instruction, after print handwriting is secure. Lowercase comes before capitals, and letters are taught in stroke families — the curve letters (c, a, d, g, q), the straight lines (i, t, u, w), the loops (l, h, b, k, f), the hills (n, m, v, x, y, z) — because one learned motion carries five letters.
Schools teach different styles (Zaner-Bloser and D'Nealian are the two common American ones). The chart here is a clean, continuous script in the general tradition; if your school specifies a style, match it for homework and use this chart for practice.