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 cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.

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.

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.

Cursive Writing: A Nod To The Past 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.

But the biggest thrill is when he writes those letters in cursive. "I feel grown-up," he says, "because most of the grown-ups get to write in cursive." ...

Caleb Murray, a participant in the group's cursive writing program, stated, “And I also wanted to learn because I never learned how to write in cursive throughout my childhood.” ...

Emilia Schweitzer, left, and Danielle Falls write with homemade quills during a summer day camp devoted to cursive instruction in Danbury, Conn. Photo for The Washington Post by Monica Jorge ...

If they can’t write it, how will they communicate from unwired settings like summer camp or the battlefield? “The Constitution of the United States is written in cursive.

Graham said far more important than whether students are printing or writing in cursive is that they are being given assignments that encourage them to write well-thought-out sentences and paragraphs.