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 ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard ... instructions from Durelli to write the lowercase letters. They traced a word already printed in the ...

Without knowing cursive, students “will be locked out ... standards do require students to “print all upper- and lowercase letters,” so it’s not as if handwriting is left out of the ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in ...

It’s good for our minds! Research suggests that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard ... instructions from Durelli to write the lowercase letters. They traced a word already printed in the ...