At technology-savvy Horrall Elementary -- where students take keyboard lessons in third grade, precisely when they learn cursive -- Monique's teacher, Ed Boell, is fighting the trend.

Building on these earlier skills, the key to improving academic outcomes in grade 4 is teaching young students to connect their letters, resulting in a style of handwriting that is legible and fluent.

FILE - A teacher helps her third grade student with the placement of her hand while writing the letter "f" in cursive. (Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ...

Every Monday we would crack the spine of our “Handwriting Without Tears” workbooks, an artifact of early 2000s elementary school curriculum, a time when public schools could still afford such luxuries ...

Olivo learned cursive writing in Grade 3 and said it was a “big deal” at his elementary school for several years. Lawrence, grew up in west end, hardly learned it and says he feels he lost out.

Tim Caleval with the Ministry of Education says there are no plans to discontinue teaching cursive writing to Grade 3 students, and they haven’t had any calls to stop teaching it.

Cursive is making a comeback. Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, it is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.

Dana Russell teaches cursive to her 3rd grade class at Laurel School Upper Campus in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. A law taking effect in 2024 will require cursive instruction.

According to the packet, cursive writing lessons in third grade will introduce students to reading and writing in the different letter style, while in fourth and fifth grade, students will work to ...

Although Texas, the latest state to embrace cursive writing, first updated its state Education Code with the changes in 2017, they’re set to take place at the start of the 2019-2020 school year ...