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.

Most people can't even write in cursive with their hands, but new technology is training those who have lost motor control to write with their eyes.

Teaching kids to make those loopy letters is still a priority for Mother Jones Elementary. Another boy, named Dante, says he likes how neat his writing looks in cursive.

Because cursive required a level of fine-motor skills not typically accessible before third grade, printing was embraced as a way to get younger children to express themselves through writing.

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

Writing in cursive remains a large part of our culture, Superintendent Graham said. “We need to be careful about losing that, because so much of the basics is driven by technology,” she said.

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.

How many people actually write letters anymore? Letter writing along with cursive script is going the way of the dinosaurs if it is not extinct already. With so many alternative and quicker ways ...

The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive letters on the screen and comparing them to the standard version that was taught in elementary schools for decades.

After being made optional in 2006, cursive is returning as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum in September.

Many teachers nationwide no longer teach cursive writing to students.