Escamilla finished teaching her fourth-annual, four-part cursive writing course Sunday virtually through the Waukegan Public Library, introducing elementary school students in the Waukegan area to ...

Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas.

Some education experts say cursive writing helps young children develop motor and cognitive skills and that it also improves their ability to read and spell.

Developmentally progressive instruction allows children to learn handwriting. An open-educational resource by literacy and writing experts supports instruction for kindergarten to Grade 3 children.

Cursive engages multiple senses Cursive handwriting is emerging as a learning tool for students with dyslexia, a disorder that makes it difficult to read or interpret letters, words and other symbols.

However, children should continue practising this lost art because cursive writing makes them use their hand muscles in a different manner and activates a part of your brain which hones motor skills.

Benefits of handwriting The increased interest in cursive handwriting likely stems from effort by policymakers to improve the literacy performance of K-12 students across the country.

That’s because in “cursive writing, compared to printing . . . the movement tasks are more demanding, the letters are less stereotypical and the visual-recognition requirements create a ...

Researchers point out that writing in cursive as opposed to typing on a computer may help kids' cognitive abilities.

Teach children to read cursive but teach them to write in a hybrid style typical of effective handwriters.