Story Handwriting Paper

If your primary grade students have a story to tell, nothing beats including a picture in the exercise. The writing paper templates in this section have room at the top for students to illustrate a story topic (what they did last summer or any other writing prompt), and the line widths at the bottom of the page are in various sizes appropriate for different grade levels.

Handwriting Practice Paper for Room for Pictures!

A great way to encourage hand writing practice is to ask students to document stories. The hand writing paper templates on this page include space at the top of the page for students to illustrate a picture. The bottom part of the page has handwriting practice space with the traditional 3-line layout that provides student guidance for correctly forming letter shapes. The three line format has a darker baseline to emphasize the correct place to anchor letter shapes. The dashed middle line is in a lighter color, and the top line is shown in red to emphasize that letter shapes should not exceed this edge.These story PDF pages are appropriate for preschool, kindergarten or early elementary grade students.

Make Your Own Writing Paper With a Picture Box

Set the height of the picture box and the writing lines below it. A taller box gives more room to draw; a shorter one leaves more lines to write on. Set the box to zero for plain writing paper.

Writing paper with a picture box goes by a few names — story paper, draw-and-write paper, picture story paper — but it is always the same shape: a blank frame at the top for a drawing, and ruled lines underneath to write about it. It is the standard sheet for a young child's first pieces of writing, where the picture comes first and the sentence describes it. The three-line ruling below the box, with its dashed middle guide, is what keeps letter heights honest while a child is still learning them.

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CollegeNarrowWide¼ inch, name lineNumbered lines

Primary / kindergarten writing paper. Dashed middle line and a gap between rows.Handwriting paper with a red base line. Primary lines, with the line to write on in red.Writing paper with picture box. A 4 inch drawing space above primary lines.Handwriting paper with name. 3/8 inch primary lines with a name and date line.Spelling test paper. Numbered primary lines with a name and date line.College ruled. 0.28 inch lines with a margin line on the left.Narrow ruled. 0.25 inch lines with a margin line. The most writing per page.Wide ruled. 0.34 inch lines with a margin line, for younger writers.Lined paper with name. Quarter inch lines with a name and date line at the top.Numbered lined paper. Quarter inch lines, numbered, with a name and date line.

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The lines

Line height

incmmm

College ruled is 0.28 in, wide ruled 0.34 in, narrow 0.25 in.

Which lines Top line Dashed middle line Writing line Descender line

Middle line styleDashedDottedSolid

Number the lines

ColourAll blackRed writing lineBlue top and writing lines

Spacing

Space between linesNoneHalf a lineA full line

Number of lines0 fills the page.

Left margin line

Picture box

Box height

incm

0 for no box. A box gives children room to draw above their writing.

The page

Margin

incm

Sheets in this PDF

Name and date line Border DadsWorksheets logo at the foot

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0.5 in ruling · top + middle + base · 4 in picture box · 1 sheet

Print at 100% or Actual size — not “Fit to page”, which shrinks the sheet and makes the measurements wrong.

0.5 in ruling · top + middle + base · 4 in picture box · 1 sheetUS Letter · print at 100%

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