Handwriting Throughout The World

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Handwriting is very important for people all over the world. It helps people improve writing and reading skills. Also, it helps children process ideas and handwriting things triggers a different part of your brain. Kids that write by hand make more words than typing and they show more ideas. Handwriting helps in adulthood and even can change your life.
Some things that surprised me in the article were, “Those lessons are falling by the wayside as states adopt Common Core standards, which only require manuscript handwriting instruction until the first grade and cursive instruction is not mandated at all” (Grinberg 1). I thought that by the way our school uses Common Core, we have equal writing with hands and writing with a keyboard, or maybe

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