To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory. For example, if students handwrite the word “cat,” they need to know ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

remember to write in “print,” not cursive writing. Or better yet, when our two grandkids were smaller, we would cut our faces/heads out of photos and tape our “face photo” inside the card ...