Writing is a craft that is vital for both communicating and learning. However, many children struggle to learn to write. For most, their difficulties persist throughout elementary school unless they ...

Teaching handwriting in elementary school is getting huge support from research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Some state legislatures are paying attention and mandating that handwriting be ...

Writing by hand may feel like a relic of life before the digital age, with notes apps and emails taking the place of sticky-note reminders and handwritten cards. But it’s a utilitarian skill that ...

Teaching children handwriting could go a long way to solving New Zealand's literacy crisis, experts say. Photo/123rf Ten minutes of handwriting a day in every junior class could turn around New ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

BUFFALO, N.Y. — January 23 is National Handwriting Day. The day was created in 1977 to promote the use of pens, pencils and paper. But in 2020, is learning how to write in cursive still important?

Edith Cowan University researchers have discovered that the time dedicated to the explicit teaching of writing in primary school each week varied from 15 minutes to 7½ hours. Evidence that writing ...

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...

First graders are years away from finishing high school and choosing careers. But as a group of 1st grade teachers in a Kentucky district work with their young students on reading, writing, and math, ...

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