Brain research shows that teaching handwriting has positive effects on letter learning, word reading, spelling and composing (James & Berninger, 2019). These findings may not be appealing to many ...

A common core of subjects was arrived at, but handwriting was left out. Schools stopped teaching handwriting, and likewise, by 2011 teaching colleges stopped teaching teachers how to teach ...

Most millennials and the generations before them spent time learning cursive handwriting in school. Why has that changed? Why is the teaching of it frowned upon in schools? What is the impact on ...

Good handwriting is not an end in itself ... unless strong resource support is provided for kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers. Our resource, downloadable in 15 user-friendly files, covers concepts ...

More than anything else, it’s a chance for teachers who use writing in the classroom to do some careful, thoughtful reflection. The teaching of writing has too often involved teaching students ...

While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus. That is, until the release of ChatGPT last year.

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

That is, until the release of ChatGPT last year. There isn't really an agreed-upon approach to teaching writing, according to ...

Cursive handwriting was reintroduced on the Ontario Grade 3 curriculum in June 2023, soon followed by California. Yet school instruction in cursive is bound for failure unless strong resource support ...