Three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of copying practice in three types of graphemes (letter, letter-like figure, elements of letter) on handwriting skills of novel letters having never been practiced before. The subjects were kindergarteners (5-6 years old) who had never been receiving teaching of letters. In Experiment I (N=14), transfer of the handwriting skills of specific letters to that of novel letters was studied. In Experiment II (N=24), transfer of the skills of letter -like figures to that of novel letters was studied. In Experiment III (N=22), transfer of the skills of elements of letters to that of novel letters was studied. The result showed that the effect of copying practice in each type of grapheme of some letters was transferred to the handwriting skills of the novel letters. The results were discussed on the basis of two recent motor theories, i.e. Adams's closed loop theory and Schmidt's schema theory.