Cursive A

Cursive a is the oval of the printed a with a straight stem down its right side — closed at the top, and handed over at the baseline.

Cursive capital A and lowercase a written on a four-line school ruling

Written in the traditional US school model — the looped, joined cursive of the Zaner-Bloser and D'Nealian copybooks, which is the model every sheet on this site is set in.

How to write cursive a

  1. Start just below the midline and travel counter-clockwise into a full, slightly slanted oval.
  2. Close the oval exactly where you started it.
  3. Come straight down the right side to the baseline.
  4. Exit to the right into the next letter.

The capital A

Capital A is the same letter at full height: one oval reaching the top line and one stem down its right side. No capital stands closer to its lowercase.

Where it goes wrong

An oval left open at the top reads as a u, which is how the word and comes out looking like und.

Print the a practice sheet

Printable cursive a practice sheet — first page
Printable a worksheet, US Letter Printable a worksheet, A4

What is on the sheet

  1. Lowercase a
    aaa
    Write three letters a, exactly as in the model. Trace the pale row first, then write the empty rows on your own.
  2. Capital A
    A A A
    Write the capital A three times, with a space between them. Capitals fill the full height from the baseline to the top line.
  3. Words: apple and salad
    apple salad
    Write both words as in the model, with a clear space between them. Keep every a the same size and the same slant.
  4. Word: again
    again
    Write the word in one movement where you can, then go back for any dots and crossbars.

Print at 100% on US Letter — not “fit to page”. The ruling is classroom size, and scaling the page down makes every letter the wrong size; the 10 cm scale at the foot of the sheet is there to check against. Every block gives you a model row in full ink, a pale row to trace over and empty ruled rows of your own.

All twenty-six on one page: the cursive alphabet chart.

The other letters

Cursive F Cursive S Cursive G Cursive J Cursive Z Cursive T Cursive B Cursive R Cursive K Cursive Q Cursive I Cursive L Cursive D Cursive H Cursive E Cursive N Cursive M Cursive P Cursive V Cursive C Cursive X Cursive W Cursive Y Cursive O Cursive U

Check your a against the model

Write the sheet by hand, photograph it, and our AI scores letter formation, spacing and slant against the same model you traced.

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Oval Family: a, c and d

In the course, a is taught with the letters that share its movement — that is where to go once the shape itself is no longer the problem.

Oval Family: a, c and d The full cursive course