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    Cursive Should Be Taught

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    Should public school students be taught how to write in cursive as a requires part ot the curriculum? I think so, cursive is used throught life, why would you not want to know it. Medical brain scans show that writing in cursive helps with fine motor-skill developement and stimulates both the left and right parts of the brain. Learning cursive helps make the brain stronger. Those are my three reason why I think cursive should be taught as a required part of the curriculum. First, cursive is used throughout life. Children learns cursive at a young…

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    Cursive Writing Benefits

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    How many of today’s students know how to read and write in cursive? Currently, many American public schools no longer require their students to learn how to write in cursive. The reason for this is because many administrators believe taking the time to teach cursive detracts from more important skills such as mathematics or reading comprehension. However, there are multiple reasons why this skill is still valuable for today’s students. For example, knowing cursive allows people to read…

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    Teach Cursive Writing

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    Teachers should teach cursive writing because, compared to print cursive has a smooth flow and it takes less time to write for some people. A good thing about cursive is students with dyslexia therapy cursive can be instrumental in helping with the students read and write. Writing cursive is not just for the fact that it’s faster but also for the fact that its beautiful compare to print and it’s not just plain. Cursive is a beautiful way of writing words. At least 41 states don’t require cursive…

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    Cursive Writing Benefits

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    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…

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    Cursive Writing

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    Cursive writing has become a casualty of technology. Many American elementary schools don’t teach it to their students. Because standardized testing has overwhelmed the curriculums, schools have become obsessed with ‘testing‘ knowledge, and cursive has been pushed aside deemed no longer important. Schools don’t teach students what matter, gaining only enough knowledge to answer multiple-choice questions. Younger Americans are typing or texting more and writing less. Unfortunately, this is…

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    Cursive Writing Benefits

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    those worksheets with cursive writing. We never liked having to trace over those dotted cursive lines. Sometimes we would even try to skip class during that time, but we never knew all the good benefits we would get from writing for those 20 to 30 minutes. For example, cursive helps us develop fine motor skills and it reinforces learning. It can also help for signing legal documents. More importantly, it’s a cognitive exercise to keep our young minds sharp. People may say cursive is a waste of…

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    Cursive Writing Benefits

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    Cursive writing is a viable part of education and brain health. Having the ability to write in cursive helps not only with medical documents, school documents, and simple bank signatures, but it also makes your mind stronger, and more diverse when writing anything down. I believe that cursive writing should be in the educational system. Growing up in a society where people always have to do some sort of paperwork, this becomes a needed factor for writing skills. Wouldn't you rather have you…

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    Cursive writting is indeed beneficial to a student's mental development, and therefore; should be thaught in school. Replacing cursive writting with typing and technology will do more harm than good to the student. I typing believe it will minimize their ablity to process and retain information, and is therfore essential to one's learning development. As a student myself, writing my notes by hand helps me process the information as well as remembering it as I write it down. There is no boubt…

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    was written, forgetting cursive from the standards. Now, states, such as California and North Carolina, have gone against the common core by implementing state laws that require schools to teach cursive. These states are doing the wrong thing as cursive should be set to stone because of the greater advancements in technology, cursive’s lack of efficiency and its lack of uses, demonstrating that even though some things may be hard to leave, sometimes it is for the better that they remain a…

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    Cursive is a very beautiful form of writing, it is also very formal, we use it for all of our official documents! Cursive should be taught to public school children, as a past of required curriculum! First, I'd like to share a statement from the passage, "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool," the writer states that, "cursive writing has been proven to be good for our minds!." Wouldn't teachers and people all over that are learning, want to teach and be taught a writing style,…

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