Cursive Practice
Joined Handwriting Practice
Year 3 join drills for common digraph joins: ch, sh, th, ai, and ee. Grey exemplar pairs sit above dotted-midline rows so children feel how letters flow together in real words.
About this resource
- Category
- Handwriting
- Type
- Cursive Practice
- Year group
- Year 3
- Format
- A4 PDF
Good for
- Warm-up before writing spelling lists with those digraphs
- Tracing joins slowly then writing 'chip', 'ship', 'rain'
- OT or TA-led small group intervention
- Building fluency before full word sheets
Common questions
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