Experiment. Find a model alphabet Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that show the shapes and the order of strokes.

Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later ...

In this photo illustration, Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Hempfield, demonstrates how she teaches cursive writing in her classroom, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on this valuable skill.

And three more said they don’t teach cursive writing at all; however, D-70 in Pueblo said they’re discussing bringing it back. Before 2009, most kids were taught cursive writing in the third ...

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 ...

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

Most people can't even write in cursive with their hands, but new technology is training those who have lost motor control to write with their eyes.

She can’t write cursive and she can’t read cursive,” Datanagan said. The fact is in this digital age many people think the ability to write in script is unnecessary. It’s become a lost skill.

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.

The problem is, using and reading cursive is turning into a lost art. We spoke to Metro Detroiters to see how often they write in cursive, and put them to the test.

As a result, he says, there are no longer written requirements about whether to include cursive in curriculums, so many schools have severely shortened lessons, or worse, "the teacher just says: I ...