Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo Niccoli, a 15th Century Italian, for “inventing” our modern-day cursive, although it had been evolving long before ...

A texting thumb might be more to the point these days: most of us can barely scrawl our signature, though we spent years in childhood painstakingly tracing the cursive alphabet on dotted thirds.

Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that ... made with lightly-colored letters to trace over. What do you think so far?

Teaching of cursive writing returns after falling to the wayside ... student’s name for them on their own papers so they could trace it, learn it, and actually know how to ‘sign’ their ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national ... when we were all issued manuals to trace and practice on as homework during the summer break.

If you trace the movements, you’ll see what they mean: Using these insights, Shrewsbury says she was able to get Josh writing in cursive in about 45 minutes. “I hear all around me that cursive ...

Data analysis showed that cursive handwriting primed the brain ... Engelhardt found that handwriting (but not typing or tracing letter shapes) activated a unique "reading circuit" in the brain.

After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves ... They see the form as something of a lost art. The neat cursive writing of students is a point of pride at Woodland Consolidated ...