Cursive Letter J Worksheets
These cursive letter J worksheets give practice tracing capital and lowercase J with words at the bottom. This page focuses on cursive letter J, and is suitable for home or classroom practice.
The letter J has a nice tail in cursive script, which then lifts back up for forming other letters.
Lowercase j also has a dot, giving an opportunity to practice the downstroke and the finishing dot on one worksheet.
To download a worksheet, simply click on the image or the PDF icon below it. All worksheets are available as a free printable PDF in US Letter size, but should be suitable to print on A4 size paper by default.
Big Cursive J Letters
This worksheet allows more room for writing the big letter J in cursive.
Capital J should be larger, but still clear, and the lowercase j should have enough room to curve underneath the writing line.
The bigger style of writing is more forgiving for this letter, as it can get cramped if the tail is too small.
The J can be slow and steady when curving at the bottom, then lifting back to the writing line, without stretching it to be too long.
Cursive J Upper & Lowercase
By placing big J and little j together, this page gives a chance to practice the difference in size as well as the position of the tail and the dot for the lowercase j.
The dot should be placed above the lowercase j, not too far away, and the tail should not be too long either, as it may interfere with the next writing line.
This page is particularly good practice for a letter that uses space both above and below the main writing line.
Cursive J 3 Letter Words
This worksheet practices cursive letter J with simple 3 letter words.
Words like jam, jet, and jog give an opportunity to think about how j starts the word, and connects to the next letter.
In jam, for example, the tail of j curves back up and into the rounded a.
Jet connects j to e, before ending in t.
Jog uses the tail of j to curve into o, then into g, which also uses a tail.
These simple 3 letter words give extra practice for using the cursive letter J, and seeing how the lowercase j can fit at the beginning of a word.
How J Became Its Own Letter
The letter J is in fact a relative newcomer to the alphabet.
It used to be part of the letter I, before the two got separated.
This makes for an interesting history for the letter, and an extra reason to practice it!
Its cursive form retains some of the tail from the older letter I, and the lowercase j has its own tail at the bottom of the letter.
In cursive script, the letter J asks for a little extra control from the writer, with the need to curve the tail at the bottom for both the capital and lowercase letters.
The lowercase j also needs to have a dot placed above it.
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