Why lowercase usually comes first
Most early handwriting instruction introduces lowercase letters before uppercase, since lowercase letters make up the vast majority of what a child actually reads and writes in ordinary text — a capital letter shows up mainly at the start of a sentence or a name, while lowercase carries nearly everything else. Building strong lowercase letterforms first gives a child the most immediately useful handwriting skill.
Lowercase letters also vary more in shape and height than uppercase — some sit entirely on the baseline (like "a" or "e"), some rise above it (like "b" or "t"), and some drop below it (like "g" or "p") — which makes lowercase tracing a genuinely more demanding size-and-placement exercise than uppercase's more uniform block shapes.
Using this worksheet effectively
Grouping letters by their shape family — round letters like "o," "c," and "a" together, tall letters like "l," "t," and "h" together — rather than working strictly A to Z can help a child notice shared motor patterns across letters that look different but start with a similar pencil stroke. Every worksheet here downloads as a free, print-ready PDF with no account required.