When their first graders struggled with a writing assignment, a group of educators collaborated on a new, more effective plan ...

MONROE, La. – Gone are the days when second- and third-grade students spent hours mastering the technique needed to create the cursive alphabet and even more time learning to string those letters ...

In the hands of students, a curved piece of wood becomes a smile, a crown, an oversized ear. The shape’s “meaning” changes with its position or role, a message that also holds true in learning to ...

Live Lessons are half hour interactive programmes to support teachers and bring curriculum content to life. We work with educational consultants, specialist partners and some of the BBC's biggest ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

Most of us remember spending years of school learning how to write, first tracing letters, then writing our names, and eventually progressing to cursive. But as technology has taken over, that ...

Most parents today likely learned to write first in print, then cursive and finally – maybe years after those skills were in place – on a computer. Today, with students as young as kindergarten ...

A new study has shown the far-reaching implications of handwriting skills in early childhood. In an Australian first, Murdoch University researchers Dr Anabela Malpique, Dr Deborah Pino-Pasternak and ...