The trick to improve your handwriting as an adult is to pinpoint your difficulties in the first place. And then practice, practice, practice.

Developmentally progressive instruction allows children to learn handwriting. An open-educational resource by literacy and writing experts supports instruction for kindergarten to Grade 3 children.

Writing in cursive remains a large part of our culture, Superintendent Graham said. “We need to be careful about losing that, because so much of the basics is driven by technology,” she said.

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting.

The decline of cursive is happening as students are doing more and more work on computers, including writing. In 2011, the writing test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress will ...

Cursive engages multiple senses Cursive handwriting is emerging as a learning tool for students with dyslexia, a disorder that makes it difficult to read or interpret letters, words and other symbols.

From the beautiful ornate script we associate with days gone by to the rise of texting—handwriting has come a long way in the past century.

Everything, to be efficient, everything's going to go electronically." Think about it: how often do you use cursive in your daily life? Smith only uses it to sign her name and that's not even legible.

Because cursive required a level of fine-motor skills not typically accessible before third grade, printing was embraced as a way to get younger children to express themselves through writing.