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 ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

If you want to improve your cursive, or learn it from scratch, there are really two main skills to work on: Knowing how each letter is formed and what it should end up looking like Being ...

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 ...

The letter "G" is one of several English letters that has multiple lowercase versions.

The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive letters on the screen and comparing them to the standard version that was taught in elementary schools for decades.

Being able to read historical documents in their original form is another benefit of learning cursive, which also helps with handwritten holiday cards and letters from grandparents, she said.

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, and ...

When third grade students make the transition from printing to cursive writing, they must learn 26 new lowercase and capital letter shapes. This is a time-consuming and often traumatic transition.

These days, little classroom time is spent teaching cursive writing, crowded out of the curriculum by the demands of an increasingly complex world ...

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 ...