After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Synder, whose children are already mastering their print writing, agrees that third grade would be the right time to introduce cursive. "I can see now that their printing is getting better grade ...

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

"In the 3rd grade, testing is conducted on the introduction to cursive while in the 4th grade, their writing skills are tested. In the 5th grade, both the letter case writing and the cursive ...

with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction. Why might cursive ...

Researchers say that handwriting is linked to ... expected to be able to form all cursive letters “efficiently and proportionately” by 3rd grade. Here is a map of the states that require ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Cursive writing is included in the curriculum at Indian Mills School in Shamong, New Jersey, where students begin learning it in third grade. Although it is not mandated by the state, the ...

with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction. Why might cursive ...