Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...
If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.
A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...
Laura Miller, director of curriculum at Butler Area School District, said she’s seen how children nowadays can’t read cursive ...
(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.
In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...
Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...
Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...
Cursive writing returns to Pennsylvania classrooms next month ...