Cursive writing is introduced in second grade about halfway through the school year and reinforced in higher grades. Rost uses a chapter book, “Muggie Maggie,” to introduce the skill.

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...

Cursive, in particular, aids in making handwriting more efficient, and therefore faster and more legible. When writing becomes automatic, student’s working memory is freed up, allowing for ...

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

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.

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 ...

Cursive, in particular, aids in making handwriting more efficient, and therefore faster and more legible. When writing becomes automatic, student’s working memory is freed up, allowing for ...