Copywork — Proverbs 3:5-6
NameDate
Trace each line, then write it on the line below.
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Bible copywork worksheets, for A4
Two verses on the transitional ⅜-inch ruling — a top line, a baseline and nothing between them. Each line is printed to read, printed faintly once to write over, and then left as an empty rule.
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Copywork — Proverbs 3:5-6
NameDate
Trace each line, then write it on the line below.
What is on this sheet
The faint gray line is what marks this sheet as the one after tracing. A dotted letter is a path to follow and a gray one is a shape to write over, so the pencil has to do the deciding about where a stroke starts and how far it goes. It is a small change and it is the whole step between copying a letter and writing one, which is why the middle line here is gray rather than dotted.
Copywork is the oldest handwriting exercise there is and it is still the best one once letters are formed, because it is three lessons at once: the hand practices, the eye holds the spelling and the punctuation long enough for them to go in, and the words themselves get read four or five times without anybody being asked to memorize anything. Two verses is about right for one sitting at this age — long enough to be work, short enough to finish.
The passage is Proverbs 3:5-6, printed exactly as the translation has it — the punctuation, the spelling and the capitals are the source’s rather than ours, which is a condition of using the name and is also what a child copying it should be copying.
Scripture: World English Bible Updated (public domain) · worldenglish.bible
Any passage, any ruling
This page is one sheet out of a family that can print thousands.Proverbs 3:5-6 sits in the same passage picker as the Gettysburg Address and “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” — a few hundred entries, Scripture listed first — and any of them can be set at any of the twelve rulings, in any of the five trace styles, in print or in cursive. Or paste your own verse and get the same sheet.
The settings travel in the address bar rather than on a server, so the builder link at the top of the page opens the bench on exactly this sheet, and a sheet you make can be sent to another family as it stands. There is nowhere in it to put a child’s name — see what we don’t collect.
Printing it on US Letter
This sheet is set for A4 — 210 × 297 mm. Paper size is not a preference on a ruled sheet: sent to a printer loaded with something else, the browser shrinks the page to fit, and a ruling that has been shrunk is no longer the size it was chosen for. So there is a second copy of this sheet, measured for US Letter.
Every Scripture sheet
9 sheets, each one a page like this one. Nothing is locked and nothing needs an account.
Verses to trace
A verse on primary ruled paper, traced first and then written alone.
Copywork
A passage a line at a time, once the letters are no longer the work.
Memory work
The same passage with more of it missing each time, and the whole of it on the key.