Upper elementary teachers can guide students to focus on small details as they learn to use descriptive language and imagery.

The opportunity to reflect on what they know helps students strengthen their mathematical understanding and supports ...

Researchers point out that writing in cursive as opposed to typing on a computer may help kids' cognitive abilities.

We spoke with three educators who are integrating handwriting activities to boost their readers’ penmanship and literacy skills—and discovered a few surprises along the way.

National Handwriting Day doesn’t boast free pie slices, but you can savor the lost art of handwriting on Jan. 23 by putting pen to paper. “Though computers and email play an important role in ...

Writing by hand is linked to higher brain connectivity than writing with a keyboard. The corresponding study was published in Frontiers. Writing with a keyboard carries many benefits. It's more ...

Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory ...

Friday, Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, in addition to being the birthday of John Hancock, one of the country’s Founding Fathers and the man whose distinctive signature adorns the ...

For many, the return of mandatory cursive handwriting instruction in the Ontario curriculum, starting in Grade 3, is a welcome and long-overdue move on the part of the Ministry of Education. It is ...

Get writing: a new study suggests that hand-penned cursive is better for learning than using a keyboard.

Who would have thought the subject of handwriting could be contentious? But, it seems this topic is dividing scientific opinion. Last year, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published an article ...