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White offered guidance on maximizing handwriting’s benefits, including whether to prioritize cursive, the importance of developing automaticity and ensuring handwriting remains a functional literacy ...
I applaud teacher Tracy Burns and the Gorham school district for bringing cursive writing into the curriculum (Jan. 6). Waldorf schools, since their founding almost 100 years ago, have taught ...
A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.
Students from 6th to 12th grade learn the lost art of writing in cursive,. Many recall a time when cursive writing was a standard part of the curriculum.
The handwriting is not on the walls of Midway Hills Academy. It’s on plain old-fashioned ruled notebook paper. And that ...
Evi and her classmates are learning the art of cursive writing, the old-school style of writing defined by flair and flourishes that are absent in block printing.
In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went ...
We asked readers, Should school kids still learn cursive writing?The argument for teaching kids cursive writing How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? N… ...
You’re learning cursive from the internet, which means nobody is grading you on this. Experiment. Find a model alphabet Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like.
The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back cursive writing after learning her granddaughter, a sixth-grader at Fountain Middle School, doesn’t know how to read or write in cursive.
The research on how cursive handwriting benefits educational development is spotty.
Cursive instruction sidelined In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature.