Monday, December 21, 2009

Advantages of Cursive

Recently research has showed the advantages of teaching cursive early such has Kindergarten instead of 3rd grade in traditional schools.


This document (http://www.swrtraining.com/id29.html) explainted the advantages and an excerpt on how cursive may help those children who might have Dysgraphia.

Here is a great cursive worksheet generator:
http://www.worksheetworks.com/english/writing/handwriting/handwriting-cursive-trace.html

My 5 years old daughter enjoys learning cursive now.  So far, there is no confusion between print writing and cursive writing.  In fact, it provides a positive challenge to her; she will look at the cursive alphabet chart and begin to brainstorm how to connect the alphabet together. 

Cursive alphabet chart (reference from Wikipedia):

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