The non-profit organization Campaign for Cursive is dedicated to educating kids and adults on the benefits of cursive writing. Committee member Edda Manley spoke with the Calgary Eyeopene r about ...

Memory Why Cursive Handwriting Is Good for Your Brain Writing by hand helps the brain learn and remember better, an EEG study finds. Posted October 2, 2020 | Reviewed by Devon Frye ...

Focus on letter connections The beauty of cursive writing is in its flow, how every letter connects to each other. This focusing on letter connections is important for fluid and elegant handwriting.

“The kids we get in our handwriting class are just printing. They have no real concept of how to form cursive letters,” Chan, a former elementary school teacher, says.

Example of printing on its way to cursive handwriting. (Sibylle Hurschler Lichtsteiner) Steven Graham, an expert in special education, writing and literacy at Arizona State University, advocates ...

Another positive attribute resulting from cursive writing is in brain development. Research indicates that printing uses one side of the brain and writing uses the other side of the brain. When we ...

Schools must and can do better, starting early. The key is not only teaching cursive, but a greater focus on all printing to cursive handwriting, spelling instruction and fine motor skills.

Reading cursive matters, but even children can be taught to read writing that they are not taught to produce. Reading cursive can be taught in just 30 to 60 minutes -- even to five- or six-year ...

Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.

Aravamudan thinks convent schools are sticklers for cursive writing. “We have a joke about my alma mater, Loyola School in Trivandrum, that all its students have practically the same handwriting!" ...