My daughter learned italic cursive years ago but wanted to learn traditional cursive recently. I wrote out the alphabet for her in upper and lower case letters and she copied that for a couple of weeks and then moved on to writing her name and then on to writing whatever she wanted for 10 minutes each day. We also used Jan Bartowsky’s free videos on handwriting. They are fantastic!
This whole process only took a matter of a few weeks and my daughter now has very pretty cursive handwriting.
I will share a link to the videos if you are interested. You can also just google Jan Bartowsky (hope I’m spelling her name correctly!) handwriting and you will find a link to the free videos on her website. She does offer handwriting curriculum but my daughter wanted to learn traditional cursive and Jan has her own version of cursive.