Cursive Letter L Worksheets

Cursive l is a single tall loop and one of the most valuable letters to get right early, because four other letters are built on top of it. Start at the baseline, run a long smooth undercurve all the way to the top line, loop back down the same slant to the baseline and exit forward. No corners, no pause at the top, and the two sides of the loop should not touch.

Get l right and b, h, k and f follow

The ascender loop of l reappears unchanged in b, h, k and f, and slightly reduced in e. That makes l a genuine investment: a child who can produce a clean, consistently slanted l already owns the hardest component of five other letters. It is worth spending an extra session here rather than moving on when the letter is merely acceptable.

A closed loop becomes a stick

If the two sides of the loop meet, l reads as a plain vertical stroke and words like leg and log go flat. The usual cause is a loop drawn with the fingers, which produces something narrow and cramped. A loop drawn with the forearm opens naturally. The other frequent fault is height: l reaches the top line, while t stops noticeably short of it and e stays below the midline.

What the free sheets offer

The extra large page prints L and l with enough height that the loop opening is obvious, a solid model leading three dashed copies on each of three bands. The guided page shows capital and lowercase together at 96 point, then rows of seven capitals, seven lowercase and four Ll pairs on three line guides, then two ruled lines to write unaided. The words page traces leg, lip and log.

Which letters get easier once l is solid?

b, h, k and f all reuse the l loop without modification, and e is the same shape at half the height. Capital L is unrelated, it is a large flourished form that many adults find harder to read than to write. Practising l properly is the single most efficient thing you can do in early cursive.