

This Kindergarten worksheet on Directional Lines for Writing helps young learners understand writing direction and stroke formation through structured tracing activities. Designed especially for KG students, this worksheet strengthens pencil control, direction awareness, and early letter-writing readiness. By practising standing lines, sleeping lines, slanting lines, and simple shape completion, children learn how to move their pencils correctly from top to bottom and left to right. These foundational writing movements prepare them for proper alphabet formation.
Directional tracing activities help children: 1. Develop correct writing habits (top-to-bottom, left-to-right). 2. Improve fine motor skills and hand strength. 3. Build early letter and shape formation confidence. 4. Strengthen hand-eye coordination for school readiness.
🧠 Exercise 1 – Trace the Standing Lines
Children trace vertical dotted lines from top to bottom, connecting objects (bus to house), reinforcing downward stroke direction.
➡️ Exercise 2 – Trace the Sleeping Lines
Students trace horizontal dotted lines from left to right, helping bees reach flowers, building correct left-to-right writing flow.
✈️ Exercise 3 – Trace the Slanting Lines
Children trace diagonal lines carefully, strengthening control over angled strokes.
🔺 Exercise 4 – Join the Lines to Complete Shapes
Students join dotted lines to complete shapes like triangle, oval, square, and rectangle, and then draw them independently in the blank column.
🔤 Exercise 5 – Trace the Letter Patterns
Children trace patterned strokes used in letters such as A (slant lines), B (standing + curves), C (curves), and D (standing + curve).
Exercise 1 – Standing Lines
Students should trace each vertical dotted line neatly from top to bottom.
Exercise 2 – Sleeping Lines
Students should trace each horizontal dotted line from left to right.
Exercise 3 – Slanting Lines
Students should trace each diagonal dotted line smoothly without lifting the pencil.
Exercise 4 – Completed Shapes
1. Triangle
2. Oval
3. Square
4. Rectangle
Students then draw each shape independently in the blank column.
Exercise 5 – Letter Patterns
Students trace the repeated letter strokes:
A pattern (slanting lines)
B pattern (standing + curved strokes)
C pattern (curved strokes)
D pattern (standing + curved strokes)
(Tracing quality may vary based on motor development.)
Build strong writing direction habits early and prepare your child for confident alphabet writing with guided directional line practice.
It teaches correct movement for writing letters and words.
Left to right and top to bottom movements are essential.
They guide children to follow correct writing flow early.