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That cursive-challenged class included Alex Heck, 22, who said she barely remembered how to read or write cursive.
"It's how French school kids learn how to write cursive, so it has super-super-small lines," he says.
If I had not learned to write cursive, I probably never would have learned to read it, and my archival work as a biographer — deciphering the handwritten letters of men and women born in the nineteenth century, or the early decades of the twentieth — would have been extremely arduous, if not impossible.
In the technology era where computers in schools and homes are the new normal, why are we still teaching children to write cursive?
(I like to use this yellow loose leaf paper -- the kind we learned to write cursive on in grade school -- because it feels special).
Peeps, even if you can't write cursive, you can print for your loved one whichever of these two samples of heartbreakingly beautiful prose is closest to what you want to say.
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Tomlin writes cursive Latin text on a reconstruction of a waxed tablet.
It was obvious that my daughter was not very good at writing cursive since she had learned the skill two years before and probably hasn't written in it since.
More recently, Palluel-Germain et al. [5], in a pilot study, analyzed the effects of using HPG to train the fluency of writing cursive letters in kindergarten children.
Some children, when they were toddlers, may have written cursive when they scribbled as toddlers, so don't forget to explain to them cursive is like scribbling words similar to writing.
(J/K. But I think they have forgotten how to write in cursive. Millennials: You can Google "cursive").
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