These steps follow the traditional school letters shown above. Other handwriting systems may form R differently, so stay consistent with the style you are learning.
Capital R in cursive
Begin with a small hook at the top left and pull a straight stem down to the baseline.
Return to the top and sweep right around the bowl, back toward the stem at the midline.
Kick the leg out to the baseline and finish with a small curl.
Lowercase r in cursive
Slant up from the baseline to the midline.
Make a small shoulder to the right, staying at the midline.
Come down to the baseline and curve into the exit stroke.
Common mistakes with cursive R
Rounding the shoulder into a hump, which makes lowercase r look like n.
Making the shoulder too high, so r towers over the letters beside it.
Drawing a printed r, which leaves nothing to join to the next letter.
Common cursive r connections
ra
re
ri
ro
ru
Words that start with R in cursive
rose
river
read
ready
Cursive R copy and paste
Click a character to copy it. These are Unicode characters, so they work in bios and messages but look different from the handwriting above. For a whole word, use the cursive generator.
Free cursive R worksheet
Trace the pair on each line, then write it yourself on the empty line below. Print it at full page size.
