Nancy Cushen White: In a lesson, teach it slowly in a sequence and then have children reading and writing the words with those letters. You don’t ask them to spell anything that they can’t write the ...

Before the lesson, the children couldn't decipher between a ... Numerous studies have shown that preschoolers who practice handwriting read better in elementary school. But the benefits don ...

And kids with dysgraphia or other learning differences ... Walsh’s school uses the Fundations literacy program, which includes handwriting lessons, in addition to supplemental lessons by ...

Spear says practicing handwriting, especially cursive, helps these kids become better readers ... So I hope we’ll never lose it.” Lessons for life, no matter how much they will use cursive ...

A University of the Basque Country study finds traditional pencil-and-paper methods superior for early literacy development.

That might not be a good thing. New research shows that dropping handwriting lessons from schools could be bad for brain development in children. But are children learning to type doing any better?

“I think I picked up very early on in my career as a teacher,” he says, “that the two most important things to get children writing are motivation and confidence – seeing that their work ...

In other words: Kids were better at processing information when doing so by handwriting as opposed to ... end product is just as important as the lesson itself. Test prep and academic pressure ...