These strategies help preschool and kindergarten students develop letter recognition, spatial awareness, and fine motor ...

I have often referred to favorite adages from my past and two come to mind now: “What’s wrong with this picture,” and “The handwriting is on the wall.” Let’s take the first one in ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive letters on the screen and comparing them to the standard version that was taught in elementary schools for decades.

The different styles of writing and joining the letters together is almost an art. Somehow along the way, handwriting disappeared from our elementary school curriculum's. This happened almost ...

Relying solely on a keyboard to learn the alphabet and type out written words could be problematic; accumulating evidence suggests that not learning cursive handwriting may hinder the brain's ...

Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes ...

One 2012 study even found that handwriting triggered activity in certain regions of the brain—areas responsible for reading and comprehension—where typing letters and copying words did not.

Some letters are tall and reach the top line like b. Other letters have a long tail like g. Look carefully at the letters below and think about whether each one is a tall letter or a letter with a ...

The letters give the parents an eye into their son's mind. It opens up their world - they can see … how he's unravelling his thoughts.'' A year 9 student, Alex Li, said writing letters allowed ...