Is cursive writing (草写体) an out-of-date skill in today's technological society?The new education standards for English do not require cursive.However,schools are still allowed to teach cursive if they choose.Some schools are considering giving up cursive,since it is not on standardized ...
Survey Shows Cursive, on the Decline, Is Taught in Many Classrooms Nationwide (Posted 2013-05-08 01:28:48) ; about Three of out Four Second and Third Grade Teachers Continue to Include Cursive Instruction in Their Curriculum, According to a New National Survey of Elementary School Teachers...
Cursive Writing: The word "cursive" derives from the Italian termcursivo.Cursive writing was once widely taught in classrooms all over the world. However, many schools are abandoning it. Answer and Explanation: Cursive writing is a way of using the alphabet in a way that makes writing easier...
When I was in school, they taught us a handwriting script which was not-quite-cursive and not-quite-print (for example, a lower-case g wouldn’t loop around to continue into the next letter). Personally, I resent that they never taught us any kind of proper cursive (just as I resent...
(laughter) i had a vision of 10 girls sitting ina cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns. (laughter) camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol. and on the very firstday our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that shesaid we would be...
Today is Halloween, which means that I’ve been back in the US for just over a year. You wouldn’t know it from this blog, since I’m still mostly writing about my experiences overseas; I can hardly believe it myself! But the dates don’t lie: a year ago today, I was just begi...
children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that “reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible...
Honesty is one of the most treasured traditional values in China. The children are taught to be honest when they are very young. At schools the students are also instructed to be honest. However, with the development of soclety, we often hear complaints about dishonesty. Reports with the the...
1.the use of characters in writing that represent syllables rather than individual sounds, as in the Cherokee syllabary. 2.a division of a word into syllables. tachygraphy 1.the ancient Greek and Roman shorthand systems. 2.cursive writing. —tachygrapher, tachygraphist,n.—tachygraphic, tachy...
The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.