Place the tip of your pencil between the top line and the mid line of your handwriting paper. Begin about one-third of the way down between these two lines.
Draw a line that slants slightly toward the right as you move from your starting point to the top line.
Curve your line to the right and moving downward once you reach the top handwriting line. Continue a line downward all the way to the bottom handwriting line.
Create a curve to the right and moving upward once you reach the bottom handwriting line. This curve should be slightly wider than the curve that you created at the top right portion of the letter.
Extend the curve upward, creating a straight line all the way up to the top handwriting line. Even though this is a straight line, it should still lean slightly to the right since this is a cursive letter.
Trace back down the line that you extended upward in step five, and continue below the bottom handwriting line for about a third of the length of the letter. This is the beginning of the y's tail.
Curve the y's tail to the left and back upward. As you move upward, slant your line to the right so that it passes underneath the bottom of the letter on the bottom handwriting line and extends upward in a slant toward the right. End the tail just above the bottom handwriting line. If you are connecting the y to another letter, extend the tail upward and begin the next letter without picking up your pencil.