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 ...

Davis Payne, left, and Brendon Farmer trace cursive letters with their fingers Wednesday in the 6- to 9-year-old’s classroom at the Mountaineer Montessori School in Charleston, W.Va. Charleston, W.

Elizabeth Fraley believes, introducing cursive writing can be a rewarding experience when approached with creativity and patience. In schools, structured lessons that begin with tracing and ...

Grocery lists, medical prescriptions, even love letters are penned by hand ... though we spent years in childhood painstakingly tracing the cursive alphabet on dotted thirds.

On a recent school day, Ms. Rivera’s fourth-grade class practiced their ascending and descending cursive strokes, tracing the letters in the air above their desks. Next, they assumed the proper ...

One afternoon last week, Farag’s students practiced their cursive y’s, first tracing and then writing the letter over and over again in their workbooks. They joined “y” with other letters ...

Chief among their scientific missiles are studies that show cursive fires up areas of the brain that tracing, typing or even printing letters does not. “They’re doing some studies that seem to ...

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 ...