The writing may be on the wall for something that used to be standard fare in our elementary schools. It turns out that the elegant script of cursive handwriting is barely being taught anymore.

Currently in South Carolina, a state law requires public schools to “provide instruction in cursive writing to ensure that students can create readable documents through legible cursive handw… ...

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

A Missouri school district says it may stop teaching students how to write in cursive because they say technology has made it obsolete. Do you think cursive is still a worthwhile lesson to teach ...

Experiment. Find a model alphabet Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that show the shapes and the order of strokes.

As for whether elementary schools will continue to include cursive handwriting in their lesson plans, some educators noted there was a possibility it could be phased out.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

Proponents of cursive writing instruction say that although handwriting isn’t as much of a life skill as it was 20 or 30 years ago, students still need opportunities to learn and practice.

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 ...