Word Tracing Worksheets
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Pick a word list or type your own words. Every word gets two rows: a solid model with numbered stroke arrows and dotted copies to the end of the line, then a row with one light copy and room to write the word alone.
Class set
One copy for every student: type the first names and get one PDF, with each name on that student's own pages. Every student's pages use the same settings.
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This is the sheet as it prints. Change any option and it updates.
Where the word lists come from
The built-in lists are the first fifteen lessons of the grade one list in Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller by Ernest Horn and Ernest J. Ashbaugh (1920), and the first three Dolch sight word lists. Each source is named and linked under the word list below.
Three examples
The first page: 1st grade spelling, lessons 1 to 5, at the Ages 5-6 size. 
Lessons 11 to 15 in cursive at the Ages 7+ size. 
Kindergarten spelling words at the Ages 3-4 size with two guide lines, on A4 paper.
The grade one word list, lessons 1 to 15
The 150 words of the 1920 speller's grade one list, ten to a lesson. The kindergarten list in the menu is its first four lessons.
Lessons 1 to 5 50 words
- is
- and
- are
- day
- he
- in
- it
- me
- all
- at
- be
- can
- dog
- good
- my
- see
- she
- you
- book
- boy
- but
- dear
- did
- do
- go
- his
- little
- look
- not
- out
- that
- today
- up
- was
- an
- as
- big
- come
- for
- get
- hand
- have
- if
- into
- land
- last
- let
- like
- man
- may
Lessons 6 to 10 50 words
- old
- on
- one
- over
- run
- say
- tell
- the
- this
- tree
- way
- will
- your
- away
- by
- cannot
- doing
- down
- eat
- give
- gold
- hat
- her
- home
- how
- ice
- looking
- love
- of
- play
- so
- some
- ten
- thank
- them
- then
- thing
- think
- three
- time
- us
- we
- when
- wind
- with
- after
- am
- apple
- baby
- bed
Lessons 11 to 15 50 words
- bee
- box
- call
- cane
- cat
- coat
- cold
- corn
- cow
- each
- far
- fast
- fat
- five
- from
- gave
- girl
- going
- green
- had
- hard
- has
- hen
- just
- live
- made
- make
- milk
- mother
- much
- must
- night
- no
- or
- pig
- playing
- put
- red
- ring
- sat
- school
- send
- six
- snow
- sun
- they
- top
- what
- wood
- ran
Source of the words, in the order the book prints them (one spelling modernized: to-day is shown as today): Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller for Grades One to Eight, by Ernest Horn and Ernest J. Ashbaugh (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1920), Grade One word list, columns 1 to 15 (book pages 3 to 6).
Questions and answers
How is each word laid out?
In two rows. The first starts with a solid model with stroke arrows, then dotted copies to the end of the line, the first dark and the rest light. The second shows one light copy and leaves room to write the word alone.
Where do the word lists come from?
From Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller (1920), read in its Project Gutenberg edition, and from the Dolch lists as printed by ReadWriteThink (IRA/NCTE). Both are linked on this page.
Can I type my own words?
Yes. Choose My own words in the list menu and type them, each on its own line or separated by commas, up to 600 characters.
Can the words be in cursive?
Yes. Choose Cursive under Letter style; the copies to trace become light gray lines instead of dots.
How is this different from the spelling worksheets?
The spelling worksheets give each word one row: a model, two copies and space to write. Here each word gets a whole row of copies to trace and a second row to write it.