Vertical Lines Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns, Half Tracing, 6 Rows, Ages 6–8
About twenty straight down-strokes cross each of the six medium rows on this sheet, dashed for a little over half the row, then left for 6–8-year-olds to finish evenly spaced.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Vertical lines
How to use this worksheet
- Every line starts on the top guide line and goes straight down to the bottom one; the dark dot marks the top of the first line.
- The first two lines are solid. Trace the dashed ones after them, lifting the pencil after each line and starting the next at the top.
- Where the dashes end, carry on alone, keeping the same gap between lines until the row is full.
What this worksheet teaches
The top-to-bottom stroke appears in more than half of the lowercase letters, from l, i and t to b, d, h, k and p. Starting exactly on one line and stopping exactly on the other is what keeps letters the same height. The second half of each row adds spacing: your child has to judge the gap by eye and keep it steady, which is the same skill as leaving even spaces between letters and words. Six rows give plenty of repetition without any new shape to learn.
Variation to try
Bamboo forest: in the untraced part of each row, your child adds two small leaves to every fifth line, turning the lines into bamboo, and draws a panda at the end of the last row.