Georgia’s new English language arts standards will include an emphasis on handwriting, and particularly cursive. The previous ...

ATLANTA — The 2025 school year in Georgia will start in August and this time, it’s bringing back an older lesson plan for its ...

In this photo illustration, Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Hempfield, demonstrates how she teaches cursive writing in her classroom, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts ... Fine motor movements are used to manipulate the pencil with one’s fingers. And visual-motor coordination is used to write each letter ...

But in reality, cursive handwriting draws upon deep reading knowledge ... Fine motor movements are used to manipulate the pencil with one’s fingers. And visual-motor coordination is used to ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter.

In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...

Why some in Stockton believe pencils and handwriting could change the world. California passed a new law this year requiring students in grades one through six to learn cursive.

Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive ...