Cursive handwriting is the joint writing style, and to master it, it’s essential to master the cursive words. As much as it’s important to master how to write different cursive words, you cannot learn them without perfecting your cursive alphabets. You can read our blog on cursive alphabets to learn how to improve your technique of cursive alphabets.
According to many teachers and experts, cursive handwriting has many advantages, some of which we have discussed in our past blogs. One of these advantages is improving a child’s handwriting. As we discussed, cursive writing is a joint writing style, so not only it enhances a child’s handwriting, but it also encourages faster writing speed, which benefits them in their grade.
As it is a joint writing style to master these cursive words and cursive writing, learning the linking patterns between the cursive letters is very important.
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Linking patterns
The first thing to learn to write perfect cursive words is to perfect cursive letters and then perfect the linking patterns between them. The linking patterns are categorized into the linking pattern of a single letter and the linking pattern of different letters.
Practice linking pattern of a single letter
To practice the linking pattern of a single letter, you can start with picking a letter of your choice and try to link them in a fluid pattern. You can even use a lined paper to trace and practice this.
To start your practice, you can download our printable practice cursive words worksheets pack.
Practice linking the pattern of different letters
Once you practice the linking pattern between the same letter, it’s time to practice the linking pattern between different letters, and you can start with words that are easy to connect and then proceed with some complex pairs.
Join two letters at the bottom
This set contains letters that are joined at the bottom such as ai, ar, au, aw, ay, and ch.
Once you have practised these, you can continue the rest of the pair in this set, such as ck, er, ew, ff, ir, kn, ll, qu, sh th, and ur.
Join letters from bottom to c-shaped letter
This set contains letters that are joined from the bottom to the c-shaped letter like as, ea, ed, igh, and ing.
After this, you can practice the other pairs in the group which are ng, squ, and ss.
Join letter from bottom to letter e
The next is the group that joins the letter e from the bottom. This set contains pairs like ae, be, de, ee, and ue.
The other pairs in this set are fe, ge, ie, pe, and se.
Join letter from top to letter e
Once you have practised these pairs, you can practice the other set where the letter from top to letter e. This includes pairs such as oe, re, ve, and we.
The other in the set are ere and ure.
Join two letters at the top
The last set in this is the letters that join at the top, this set includes oa, oh, on, and oi.
After this, you can practice the other pair such as oo, op, or, ou, ov, and ow.
Once you practice these linking patterns, you can start practising the cursive words. Like other steps, you can begin to learn your cursive word practice with dotted line worksheets. These cursive writing worksheets help you perfect the formation of cursive alphabets and words.
How can I practice cursive writing at home?
One of the most popular questions parents ask is how they can teach their children how to write in cursive at home, to teach cursive handwriting at home, you can do the following things.
Start with practice drills
Practice drills help you to get a little warm-up before and form nice letters. For the practice drills, you can use the dotted line worksheets or practice drawing them on plain paper as you like.
Try lower case letters first
We suggest you start with lower case letters as they are similar to primary alphabets and will be easier for kids to learn and memorize. You can further start with lowercase letters with an upward stroke and continue with lowercase letters with a curved stroke. You can further learn more about it in our blog or try our printable cursive writing worksheets. All you need to do in these worksheets is follow the instructions and trace the dotted cursive text.
Move to uppercase letters
Once you perfect your lowercase letters, you can now start with uppercase letters. Start with the easy letter like L, C, G, and O and then continue with the rest.
Linking patterns
The one mistake people make is to start with cursive words worksheets and skip the linking pattern. Linking patterns between letters is a very important aspect of cursive writing and should not be skipped. You can download our cursive writing worksheets to get a warm-up worksheet, linking pattern worksheets and much more.
Cursive words and cursive sentence
After practising the linking pattern, start with practising cursive words and cursive sentences. Download our printable cursive words worksheets to perfect your cursive writing skills.
Perfecting technique
To achieve the perfect technique, one needs regular cursive practice. You can further use letter guides to perfect your cursive alphabets. We suggest you start your cursive writing practice on dotted worksheets or lined papers.
How do I get better at cursive writing?
To get better at cursive writing, you need to practice other words than the regular ones, the words that are more challenging. For which you can try our other cursive writing worksheets pack, which includes warm sheets, cursive sentences, cursive passages, and personalised text via cursive text generator and word processor. You can also read How to write in cursive and improve handwriting. For more information about these packs, feel free to connect with us.
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