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.

The little boy from Mother Jones Elementary school in Maryland is pretty attached to the ones in the alphabet that spell his name. But the biggest thrill is when he writes those letters in cursive.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

"Print writing yes, they need to learn their ABCs, but whether it's in block letters or cursive letters, I don't think it's absolutely necessary," cursive opponent Nisha Shah told ABC-TV's San ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Carrying the cursive torch Nonetheless, cursive has its aficionados, who note that many historical documents will be illegible if people can't read or write in cursive.

Cursive is somewhat of a lost art, but is it easy to retain? We asked 11 adults to try writing a sentence -- no Googling allowed.