Paste a spelling list and get four-line word tracing sheets in one click: one word per line, first cell as the model and the rest traced, six word banks, four tracing styles, three school handwriting fonts, ready to print or export
Drop a whole unit's spelling list in and it becomes page after page of tracing paper. One word per line, with the columns neatly aligned.
The layout is calculated in millimetres, so the four horizontal lines and the three bands between them are strictly equal. Ascenders, x-height and descenders each land where they should.
Three-letter words, colours, animals, numbers, days and months, and sight words. One click to load, or paste your own list instead.
Switch between lowercase, UPPERCASE and Capitalised, so you can drill basic handwriting as well as the real usage of names, places, days and months.
Dotted tracing, light grey tracing, hollow outline and a solid black model. Dotted tracing feels closest to a real paper tracing sheet and saves the most ink.
Layout and image export all happen in your browser. The words you paste never leave your device, there is no sign-up, and the tool works as soon as the page opens.
Paste the words into the word list (one per line, or separated by spaces or commas), or click one of the built-in word banks. Words appear in the order you entered them.
Use lowercase for beginners, UPPERCASE to drill letter case rules, and Capitalised for days and months. Beginners do best with light grey or dotted tracing.
Drag "Line height" to change the height of each band on the four-line paper (3 mm by default, so the three bands total 9 mm), and drag "Row spacing" to control how tightly the rows sit. Then choose the paper size, orientation and margin.
The preview on the right updates live; use "Previous / Next" for multi-page worksheets. Press "Print worksheet" to print every page, or "Export PNG" to save the current page as a 300 DPI image.
Three to five new words per lesson with a large line height and light grey tracing: trace first, then write, and remember the shape and the bands together.
Paste the entire unit's word list at once and generate several pages. Staple them together and you have a vocabulary handwriting workbook.
Trace on the top row, leave the next row blank and dictate. The header can carry the class and the pupil's name, which makes marking easier.
Five words a day, one tracing line plus one blank line, printed on A4. No need to buy a separate spelling practice book.
Generate worksheets from each class's word list in bulk, export them as PNG for slides, or vary the line height and tracing style by level.
Just as useful for adults: use the hollow outline to work on joining letters, then the blank cells to write from memory.
A word is a joined sequence of letters. If the shape, slant and band of each letter are not yet settled, writing words only repeats the mistakes more often. Start with the letter worksheet until all 26 letters — especially the easily confused lowercase a, g, d and b — are steady, then move on to words, and finally to continuous writing in the paragraph worksheet.
On four-line paper, lowercase letters fall into three groups: a c e m n o r s u v w x z fill only the middle band; b d f h k l t have ascenders and occupy the top two bands; g j p q y have descenders and drop into the bottom band. When writing a word, keep the height of all the letters without ascenders or descenders exactly equal — that is what makes a word look level.
In handwritten English the letters within a word should be evenly spaced and slightly tight; too loose and the word falls apart. Leave roughly the width of a lowercase a between words. The test is not whether every letter fills its cell, but whether the finished line looks evenly weighted with words of consistent width.
In print fonts the lowercase a and g are usually double-storey, while handwriting normally uses a single-storey a and g, with completely different stroke paths. Copying a print font teaches a child to draw the word rather than write it stroke by stroke. The default school handwriting font here is a slanted, single-storey teaching font that matches the handwriting models used in primary school textbooks.
For younger children, three to five new words a day, each with one tracing line and one blank line — accuracy matters far more than volume. Older pupils can work through 10 to 20 words per unit, but keep each session under 15 minutes; once the hand tires, the writing gets worse and the mistakes get reinforced.
| Word type | Examples | Suggested line height | Printed cells per line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three-letter words | cat · dog · pig · sun | 4–5 mm | 8–10 |
| Four to five letters | bird · water · happy | 3.5–4 mm | 6–8 |
| Six letters or more | orange · teacher · family | 3 mm | 4–6 |
| Long and multi-syllable | Wednesday · beautiful | 2.5–3 mm | 3–5 |
| Days and months | Monday · January | 3 mm | 4–6 |