“It’s even easier to just connect the letters instead of writing each individual letter,” Braun said. “I just really like it,” Telechan said.

Reading cursive matters but is much easier and quicker to master than writing the same way. Reading cursive can be taught in 30 to 60 minutes, even to 5- or 6-year-olds (including those with ...

Hence, the brain remembers the word as one unit instead of individual letters. Even publishing company Scholastic boasts of the improvement of reading and writing when using cursive.

For centuries, “reading and writing and ‘rithmetic” have provided indelible ink of academic success. Yet without much fanfare, cursive writing, long an educational cornerstone, is slipping ...

Eventually, the modern alphabet developed, relying on characters to stand in for individual consonant and vowel sounds. * Cursive, which is nearly as old as writing itself, is just another innovation.

Ohio Department of Education spokesman Patrick Gallaway said the decision of whether to continue teaching cursive writing to elementary school children falls to the individual school districts.

Cursive writing will return as a requirement in the classroom beginning this fall. Senate Bill 167, passed in 2024, ensures ...

The state gives students a choice of writing in print, cursive or a combination of both on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills essay, which is required in the fourth, seventh and 11th grades.

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones A fourth-grade student practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena last month.