Cursive Letter H Worksheets

Cursive h is a tall loop followed by a low hump. Start on the baseline, run the undercurve up to the top line, loop back down the same path to the baseline, then push up again to the midline, arch over to the right and come down to the baseline, exiting forward. The first half lives in the ascender space, the second half never leaves the bottom half of the line.

The hump is a curve, not a corner

Almost every faulty h is a pointed one. The arch should be rounded at the top like the shoulder of n and m, and the two downstrokes of that arch should stay parallel. A pointed hump usually means the pen is being turned with the fingers instead of carried across with the hand, so slowing down does not fix it. Writing the letter larger for a while does.

h is l plus n

There is no new motion in cursive h. The loop is exactly cursive l and the arch is exactly the first half of cursive n, so the letter is best taught after both of those are automatic, and it takes very little practice at that point. Where children do struggle is with proportion: the loop should reach the top line and the arch should stop at the midline, roughly half its height.

What the free printables include

The extra large sheet prints H and h with a solid model and three dashed copies on each of three bands, plus a blank ruled band at the bottom of the page. The uppercase and lowercase sheet demonstrates the pair at 96 point, then gives rows of seven capitals, seven lowercase and four Hh pairs on guides, finishing with two empty lines. The words sheet traces hat, hen and hop.

Is cursive h just an l with a hump?

Essentially yes, and saying so out loud helps. The ascender loop of h is identical to cursive l, and the arch that follows is the same shoulder used in n and m. The only genuinely new demand is proportion: the loop reaches the top line, the arch stops halfway, and the two downstrokes stay parallel.