Cursive letter joins are exactly as they sound, two letters joined together. It’s connecting letters that make up the definition of cursive writing.
To learn cursive (or teach it) students must learn common joining pairs. These connectors are in many words. A good example is “ee”.
You can’t spell “bee” “sleep” “breeze” and many other words without two e’s. So learning to join these letters together is important.
After you learn all the letters, and before you try writing full words, the next step is to begin forming two-letter pairs.
We’ve identified about 36 cursive joining letter pairs to help with many commonly used words. Here’s the list.
| al | ab | as | ap | at | aq |
| av | ar | az | ay | af | ad |
| am | ag | aj | be | by | ie |
| ne | on | oo | or | ou | ra |
| re | qu | se | sh | st | th |
| to | ty | ve | un | ur | wr |
Click the links above for individual tutorials and free downloadable worksheets for letter joins. We also have a pack of 131 cursive handwriting worksheets (all we’ve got). This includes all 38 joins we list above.
