But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, usually—and I find myself wishing I practiced cursive more ... with lightly-colored letters to trace over.

After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a capital C on the ... her daily cursive lesson, especially on the days when she gets to practice her favorite letters.

Chief among their scientific missiles are studies that show cursive fires up areas of the brain that tracing, typing or even printing letters does ... in Washington, D.C.—where the two of ...

Nine-year-old Kelsey Mardis began learning cursive at the beginning of the school year with the rest of her classmates, and she enjoys it so much that she now has a ...

During her quick lessons, Sorenson demonstrated how a cursive letter is written and has students trace the letters in the air with their fingers before practicing them on lined sheets of paper.

But in reality, cursive handwriting draws upon deep reading knowledge and requires the coordination of multiple cognitive and physical processes. To handwrite letters or spell words in print or ...