Cursive O

Cursive o closes at the top and leaves from there: its exit sits at the midline, not the baseline, which is why the word oat is joined along the top.

Cursive capital O and lowercase o 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 o

  1. Start just below the midline and travel counter-clockwise into a full oval.
  2. Close the oval exactly where you started it.
  3. Carry a small stroke to the right at the midline.
  4. Hand over to the next letter from the midline, not from the baseline.

The capital O

Capital O is the same oval at full height, finished with a small loop at the top that carries the exit stroke away to the right.

Where it goes wrong

An o left open at the top reads as a u or a v. o, b, v and w are the four letters that hand over at the midline — every other one leaves from the baseline.

Print the o practice sheet

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

What is on the sheet

  1. Lowercase o
    ooo
    Write three letters o, exactly as in the model. Trace the pale row first, then write the empty rows on your own.
  2. Capital O
    O O O
    Write the capital O three times, with a space between them. Capitals fill the full height from the baseline to the top line.
  3. Words: moon and tomorrow
    moon tomorrow
    Write both words as in the model, with a clear space between them. Keep every o the same size and the same slant.
  4. Word: balloon
    balloon
    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 A Cursive H Cursive E Cursive N Cursive M Cursive P Cursive V Cursive C Cursive X Cursive W Cursive Y Cursive U

Check your o 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: g, o and q

In the course, o 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: g, o and q The full cursive course