Colouring NestPre-cursive Handwriting Chart
- Ages 4–9
- Easy
- 1 page
- Alphabet chart
- PDF: Letter & A4
Tip: download the PDF for Letter or A4 paper, print it at 100% and use a pencil or crayon.
Up nextNew Zealand Handwriting Style Chart →Upright letters with small exit flicks, ready to join later. This style is taught in many UK, Australian and New Zealand schools before joined writing. The chart shows all 26 capital and small letters in the Playwrite GB S font (free, open-licensed, by TypeTogether for Google Fonts), each with a green 1 where the pencil starts, numbered arrows for every stroke and a blue number where the next stroke begins. It is a guide to the shapes, not an official school model: check your school's own handwriting scheme for the details it teaches.
For teachers and parents
- What it practises
- Letter shapes in one handwriting style, where each letter starts, stroke order and direction
- How to use it
- Pick the chart for the style your school teaches. Trace each letter with a finger from its green start, following the numbered arrows, then write it.
- Time
- About 5–10 minutes
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Printing tips
- Print the A4 PDF at 100% for the right letter size in New Zealand and Australia.
- Stick a chart inside a book cover so it is there whenever children write.
- Trace the arrows with a finger before writing each letter.