Starting in the 2025-2025 school year, third, fourth and fifth grade students will be instructed to read and write cursive.

Steve Graham, an education professor at Arizona State University and one of the top U.S. experts on handwriting instruction, said he has heard every argument for and against cursive.

In 2010, the syllabus still mentioned cursive, stating that “pupils will be taught how to join letters and to increase writing speed through the writing of cursive script as soon as they are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aubriella Wojnarski won for her cursive handwriting as a fourth grader in 2020, and Ainsley Vitkoski won in the print category as a first grader in 2023.

Back in 2012 Dr Karen Ray was working as an occupational therapist in schools when she noticed unusually high numbers of Prep children were experiencing problems with handwriting fluency. “ [Prep is ...

At Indian Mills School, Durelli’s fourth graders began the school year with cursive writing instruction twice a week and then shifted to independent learning later in the year. Durelli used a program ...

A Tulsa woman, Linda Shrewsbury, has developed a cursive curriculum called Cursive Logic to revive cursive writing in schools, particularly after its removal from federal standards in 2010.

There used to be a special kid’s workbook for practicing handwriting. It was a half-page tablet with wide lines, so the child had plenty of space to round out the letters. Now you can go to the Amazon ...

With the rise of computers, smartphones, and tablets, cursive writing may seem like a dying trend in the country. Renowned Filipino historian Ambeth Ocampo writes in the Opinion column of Inquirer, “I ...

4. Cursive Letters Writing Wizard Cursive Letters Writing Wizard offers numerous resources to help kids practice and learn to write in cursive. These include fun games that animate the letters at the ...