In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone fine motor skills. Writing vocabulary and spelling words helps children ...
Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...
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 ...
Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a pen or a ...
Florida lawmakers are considering a proposal that would make cursive writing a required skill for elementary school students, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...
Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...
A proposal requiring testing for Florida students’ cursive writing ability passed its second House committee Thursday, the last stop before it goes before the full House. HB 127 would put in state law ...