Teaching Cursive Handwriting & Penmanship: What’s the Point?
Teaching handwriting identifies areas of student weakness.
Cursive is often easier for students with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia.
Studies are showing the action of writing, particularly cursive writing, stimulates and engages the brain in ways typing, and even printing, does not.
In particular, writing notes has been shown to help one retain the information better than typing notes.
Evidence suggests that cursive helps with the flow of thoughts for better writing.
It is also believed that writing out words, instead of just typing them, helps one to retain the correct spelling.
It is often necessary to be able to read cursive for primary sources, and reading cursive activates different parts of the brain than reading print.
A student will never know if he or she has beautiful print or cursive if he or she never learns how to write these correctly!
