The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

This approach helps students recognize orthographic patterns—common letter groupings in English ... not proven that either manuscript or cursive writing is best. What does matter is that students get ...

There are many more fun pangrams in the English language ... in sentences using every letter and in children’s cursive and handwriting practice workbooks—you know, before cursive went the ...

You always start with the curve before drawing the long ladder. Practise your long ladder letter joins by writing the words on the list on the right on lined paper. Write each word in the list to ...

There are lots of things to think about and practise when you are learning to write such as finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. Spaces are really important in writing. Without them ...