As the use of technology increased, a useful skill was taken off the lesson plans in schools across the United States: cursive writing. The US Department of Education decided it was necessary to focus more on teaching students how to type on a computer than it was to learn cursive. Cursive is a skill that comes with a variety of different benefits and will continue to be useful even in the technology age.
In 2010, forty-five states adopted the Common Core academic standards. This new curriculum didn’t require cursive to be taught in the classroom, but the states could individually decide if they wanted to keep it or not. The main concern with this change is that people think their kids are going to grow to be illiterate. It mainly goes unnoticed, …show more content…
Fine motor skills are small muscles in your hands, fingers, and eyes. The only real way to help develop them is to have the child move that body part in a complex manner continuously. Some simple activities are to clap, snap, pull on a zipper, play in sand, etc. But an effective way is to write in cursive, it was easy for kids to develop these skills when cursive was taught in schools. Cursive writing is usually taught third to fifth grade, when children still need to develop their fine motor skills. Fine motor skills help children perform tasks like to write, draw, and other necessary skills needed to succeed in school. That is why most teachers look to cursive writing as a tool. It’s like killing two birds with one stone; the students learn a valuable lesson and they can develop the fine motor skills they will need later in …show more content…
Writing in cursive can improve a child’s handwriting. Children all over can learn to take pride in their penmanship. Cursive is also a much faster form of writing. Because of that, statistics show that students who know how to write in cursive actually scored higher on the essay portion of the SAT. Since they were able to write faster, they were able to focus on the content of their writing. Another obvious benefit to cursive is how it stimulates the brain. Writing all of the loops and circles can stimulate functions, the development of language, etc. The only con that comes with cursive is that it takes away from “relevant” subjects in school. Which is what Common Core has been saying, and what has been argued since day one that cursive is one of those “relevant”
In 2010, forty-five states adopted the Common Core academic standards. This new curriculum didn’t require cursive to be taught in the classroom, but the states could individually decide if they wanted to keep it or not. The main concern with this change is that people think their kids are going to grow to be illiterate. It mainly goes unnoticed, …show more content…
Fine motor skills are small muscles in your hands, fingers, and eyes. The only real way to help develop them is to have the child move that body part in a complex manner continuously. Some simple activities are to clap, snap, pull on a zipper, play in sand, etc. But an effective way is to write in cursive, it was easy for kids to develop these skills when cursive was taught in schools. Cursive writing is usually taught third to fifth grade, when children still need to develop their fine motor skills. Fine motor skills help children perform tasks like to write, draw, and other necessary skills needed to succeed in school. That is why most teachers look to cursive writing as a tool. It’s like killing two birds with one stone; the students learn a valuable lesson and they can develop the fine motor skills they will need later in …show more content…
Writing in cursive can improve a child’s handwriting. Children all over can learn to take pride in their penmanship. Cursive is also a much faster form of writing. Because of that, statistics show that students who know how to write in cursive actually scored higher on the essay portion of the SAT. Since they were able to write faster, they were able to focus on the content of their writing. Another obvious benefit to cursive is how it stimulates the brain. Writing all of the loops and circles can stimulate functions, the development of language, etc. The only con that comes with cursive is that it takes away from “relevant” subjects in school. Which is what Common Core has been saying, and what has been argued since day one that cursive is one of those “relevant”