Teach Handwriting with Pencil Pete

Need a clear model while your students learn to write? Pick a letter. Let Pete demonstrate. You teach.

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A simple classroom routine

  1. Watch together. Choose the letter you are teaching and point out its starting place.
  2. Replay and try. Students follow the movements on paper while the demonstration repeats.
  3. Look and adjust. Circulate, check a few letters, and give students another look when they need it.

Use Pencil Pete alongside your handwriting instruction. You choose the letters, pace, and amount of practice. Use an approved classroom device and follow your school’s viewing rules.

Find the right starting point

Whole-class modeling

Open one letter on your classroom display. Keep the same model available when students begin writing.

Find a printing letter

Handwriting centers

Set up a chosen lesson on a classroom computer, approved tablet, or display. Printable cards keep the letter link handy.

Set up a center

Practice at home

Copy a lesson link into your class message or learning platform so families see the same demonstration.

Find a cursive letter to share

Try the paper first

Free samples let you check the step-by-step letter models and writing space before buying a full pack.

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Before class

Preview the lesson on your school device and check that YouTube playback works. Bookmark the alphabet page or share an individual letter link.

Teachers have found their own uses

Teachers and schools have shared Pencil Pete as a letter model, a worksheet source and a starting point for classroom activities. These references show where it appears and what each source describes.

  1. Cursive Letter Formation Videos (Handwriting). Teacher resource blog. July 10, 2022.

    Collects Pencil Pete’s individual cursive-letter demonstrations for bookmarking and literacy centers. The two alphabet compilations at the end credit other creators.

  2. How to Teach Handwriting. Education World. Updated September 26, 2018.

    Lists Pencil Pete’s cursive worksheets among resources for teaching letter formation and names Pencil Pete in its handwriting program list.

  3. 3rd Grade. Elementary-school resource page. Undated.

    The third-grade team links directly to Pencil Pete’s cursive videos under “Links for help with 3rd grade content.”

  4. Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Cursive and Multiplication Tables. State education report, p. 23. January 12, 2024.

    A district’s survey response names Pencil Pete among materials some teachers use for cursive instruction.

  5. Virtual Cursive Classroom – Bitmoji. Teachers Pay Teachers product description. Undated.

    The product description names “Pencil Pete videos” for early finishers, independent practice and literacy centers. Its preview shows the classroom layout.

  6. Cursive fun with pencil Pete! [Classroom post and photographs]. X. September 16, 2021.

    Shares cursive practice photos, including a student writing on lined paper and Pencil Pete’s letter demonstration on the classroom display.

  7. My sts really enjoy a challenge and “Pencil Pete” never disappoints! [Classroom post and photograph]. X. February 6, 2024.

    The photo shows students practicing on paper with a Pencil Pete cursive letter on the classroom display. The teacher describes students enjoying the challenge of another cursive letter.

Sources checked October 7, 2026. Dates are taken from the source; undated entries have no publication date shown. The X links lead to the teachers’ original posts and classroom photographs.

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