Lines that match our worksheets
The lines here are the same ones used on every PencilPlum handwriting and tracing sheet, so children see one set of lines all year.More handwriting practice
For letters to trace, use alphabet tracing; for your own sentences, handwriting practice.Provincial curriculum links
- BC KEarly writing with scribbles or letter strings, and knowing how writing differs from drawing.
- BC Grade 1–2Legible printing with spaces between letters and words.
- BC Grade 3Legible handwriting with spaces between words.
- ON Grade 3The 2023 Language curriculum made cursive writing an expectation again, starting in Grade 3.
Journal pages fit the way BC describes Kindergarten writing: children draw, then experiment with print to tell what happened, and learn that the picture and the words do different jobs. Big lines suit that stage, and medium lines suit printing in Grades 1 and 2.
For Ontario Grade 3 classes starting cursive, the small lines leave room for joined letters, and the handwriting worksheets can print a Canadian cursive model to copy onto them.
Summarized in our own words from BC English Language Arts (K–3) and The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Language (2023).
