Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

(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.

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have ...

This is a worthwhile goal, but knowing cursive script accomplishes more than simply reading old texts. Handwriting allows a child to literally touch language. Once they can form letters and spell ...

(For more on the brain benefits of setting our keyboards aside see "Why Writing by Hand Could Make You Smarter" by William Klemm.) The latest (2020) study on the importance of cursive handwriting ...

speaking and writing.” According to the website readingrockets.org, cursive handwriting in the early grades is linked to basic reading and spelling achievement. Even a modest amount of daily ...

Moving forward, handwriting instruction for grades 1 to 6 is to include writing “in cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels,” the law states. The directive leaves room for ...

KELLER: They're actually writing jokes in cursive, so they're practicing it in something that's of high interest to all of them. INSKEEP: California's new handwriting law takes effect in January ...

The decline of handwriting began in the 1980s as computers ... The physical act of forming the letters helps cursive writers cement these spelling patterns in a way writing in print doesn ...

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 cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.