How it works
- Type your text, one word or sentence per line.
- Choose print or cursive, and the line size for your class.
- Pick the rows: trace then write, trace only, or copy from a model.
- Download the A4 PDF. Longer lists carry on over as many pages as they need.
Handwriting in the NCERT curriculum
In the foundational years children learn to hold a pencil, form each letter correctly and keep it on the line, and later to join letters into cursive. Tracing a model and then writing it on their own, a little every day, builds that fluency.
Ideas for your own text
This week’s spelling words
Practising spelling words in joined handwriting links letter patterns with spelling. For the full set of activities, use the spelling worksheet maker.
A sentence a day
One sentence traced on Monday, traced and written mid-week and copied on Friday makes a short daily handwriting routine.
NCF and NCERT links
- Class 1–2For English as a second language, children write simple words and sentences using the common letters (C-11.2); Mridang is NCERT’s English book for these classes.
- Classes 3–5Lines from a lesson in Santoor, NCERT’s English book for Classes 3 to 5, make good copying practice.
- PracticeThe NCF-FS asks for workbooks that give regular, graded practice in reading and writing.
No national document sets the year children start cursive; schools and boards decide for themselves. Choose print until your school starts joining, then switch the same text to cursive so children compare the two forms.
These sheets use three-line guides. If your class writes English in four-line copies, the four-line writing maker gives the matching ruling. Typing a line from this week’s Mridang or Santoor lesson keeps handwriting practice tied to what children are reading.
Summarised in our own words from the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (NCERT, 2022) and NCERT’s current English textbooks for Classes 1 to 5.
