11. Joining Letters: Baseline Joins
The standard join — from the baseline up into the next letter.
Letters on this sheet
i n a u c h
What this lesson teaches
You already know every lowercase letter. From here on, the skill is joining.
The baseline join is the default: finish a letter at the baseline, swing up into the next one. You have been doing it inside letter families — now practice it between families.
Even spacing is the secret: the gap inside a join should look the same as the gap inside a letter.
What is on the sheet
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Join: in
inAn undercurve letter joined to an arch letter. The join rises from the baseline straight into the top of n.
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Joins: an and un
an unWrite the two pairs as in the model, with a space between them. Both joins should look identical in slope and width.
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Word: chin
chinFour letters, three baseline joins. Write the whole word in one movement, keeping a steady rhythm.
How to use it
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: if it measures short, the print was scaled.
The sheet holds 3 exercises, each with a model row in full ink, a pale row to trace over, and two empty ruled rows of your own.
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