As students get ready to go back to school, some younger students will be picking up a familiar writing style. For today’s ...

Experiment. Find a model alphabet Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that show the shapes and the order of strokes.

The statewide shift means students across Georgia will now practice cursive as part of their regular coursework.

Eventually, the modern alphabet developed, relying on characters to stand in for individual consonant and vowel sounds. * Cursive, which is nearly as old as writing itself, is just another innovation.

Like when you connect the cursive letters to certain vowels, they may connect differently,” Fish says. Being able to write in cursive is important, but also being able to read it is another ...

In our digitized world, where we carry keyboards on the phones in our pockets, handwriting is a dying art. QWERTY is a life skill. Cursive handwriting, increasingly, is an anachronism ...

Georgia's English Language Arts standards have been changed, adding a classic yet controversial subject: Cursive writing. Who ...

Both said they leave the decision to teach cursive to each individual school. "The Colorado Education Association does not have a statewide stance on the teaching of cursive in Colorado schools.

And when he tried to write, he tried to form the letters without lifting his pen from the paper, but it was clear he wasn't working with conventional technique. It was a similar story for his ...