As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, CanadaTeaching cursive handwriting to young children? Here’s how they learn, and resources for instruction By: Hetty Roessingh, Professor, Werklund School of ...

Developing automaticity Whether students learn manuscript or cursive, White stressed the importance of practicing until they no longer have to think about forming letters, which is when automaticity ...

Children in the US public school system don’t have to learn cursive but many educators say handwriting helps children’s cognitive development in a way that typing does not ...

“I was so excited to learn how to write in cursive in elementary school,” said Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Greensburg.

Benefits of handwriting The increased interest in cursive handwriting likely stems from effort by policymakers to improve the literacy performance of K-12 students across the country.

Learning through the use of muscle memory is the reason students need to learn cursive handwriting.

Then-third-grader Logan Gibson receives help from a classmate while learning the cursive alphabet at White Lick Elementary School in Brownsburg, Ind., on April 22, 2011. The reading and writing of ...