Hi, Noah! Thanks for sharing! It sounds like you've worked really hard on your handwriting! Hi, Vivian! Do you like to practice writing in cursive? Do you ever sign documents like papers in school in cursive? Hi, Brianna!
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Uncategorized 3. Since letters have been invented, people have looked for ways to write them more swiftly. Scribes writing on clay tablets developed a more fluid form of writing that served as an early cursive in Mesopotamia.
The cursive writing we recognize today started developing in Europe the 16 th century. Connecting letters with loops and tails seemed to grow increasingly more uniform across languages as education became more available to the citizens of those nations.
Instruction was made more simply by the invention of textbooks printed using a special copper plate. Students could trace the preprinted letters with their quill pens. The resulting form of writing was simply referred to as copperplate.
Some still preferred using cursive because they loved the shapes of loops and long strokes while others believed that printing was more practical. Keyboarding skills are becoming more popular because kids and teens are rarely writing using their hands.
As a matter of fact, students are advised not to use cursive while answering some tests because it might be difficult to read. Moreover, although teachers are asked to teach their students cursive writing, only a few of them are actually trained to teach it. People who know how to read in cursive can understand legal and historical documents. It also helps students with learning disabilities like dyslexia because it improves fine motor skills and hand-brain coordination.
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