Lines that match our worksheets
The lines here are the same ones used on every PencilPlum handwriting and tracing sheet, so children see one set of lines all year.More handwriting practice
For letters to trace, use alphabet tracing; for your own sentences, handwriting practice.Curriculum links in England
- Year 1Pupils learn to sit correctly and hold a pencil comfortably, and to form lower-case letters, capitals and digits.
- Writing guideThe DfE writing framework calls wide-lined paper essential in Year 1, with mid-line guides to help place letters.
- Year 2Letters are the right size relative to one another, with capitals and digits in proportion.
- Years 3–4Handwriting becomes more legible, consistent and well presented.
The writing framework says children should move to narrower lines only once they write legibly and easily on wide lines. That is how the Big, Medium and Small sizes are best used: by each child’s control, not by the date on the calendar, so one class may need two sizes.
The dashed middle line on these sheets is the kind of mid-line guide the framework mentions, showing where the body of letters such as a, c and e should stop. In Key Stage 2 many schools move to ordinary lined exercise books, so the Small size works as a stepping stone.
Summarised in our own words from the National Curriculum in England: English programmes of study and the DfE writing framework (2025).
