Abeka and other prek curriculems have started teaching cursive handwriting and omitting manuscript altogether.

Question

Is this such a good idea as almost all the books and papers we read are printed in manuscript?

Answer 1

Depending upon the fine motor skills of the child, cursive can be easier than printing. "Drawing letters" (manuscript) can then easily be taught.

Depends upon the child, I suppose.

Answer 2

I guess the theory is that your pupil/child will already get manuscript, and the cursive writing will add balance.

The result might be a merger of the two, into what is called "Calligraphy", which is a very fine way to write.

Cursive expresses the right--side brain hemisphere, which is personally expressive and artistic. Manuscript is more logical and left--brain hemisphered. We all need to balance both sides of our brains.

I wish that I could dump my keyboard, and just handwrite my sentences out. But I guess I'm showing my age. Back when I was a kid, in the fifties and sixties, we got GRADED for things like "Penmanship".!

Answer 3

In my humble opinion, it is easier to write cursive than print. Our son went to Pensacola Christian (years ago) and was in the public school system first and then had to learn cursive. It was a struggle for him at first but he has great handwriting still yet today. The letters flow from one to one, whereas printing requires you to stop the flow and continue with the next letter. When I started homeschooling our daughter with Abeka at age 4, we used the A Beka cursive program and her writing was textbook cursive, however, we didn't continue. She prints just fine now without ever having had a lesson in printing and both of them are allowed to write however they want and that includes dd making pretty letters with curly cues on the ends and with hearts dotting the letter "i". :-)

I'm a little taken aback that manuscript is done away with considering that more and more people are typing and computers are in use and well, I think that these boards alone show cursive not in use. Many schools require typed reports instead of hand-written ones and that is how it is at the office as well.

Cursive looks beautiful when done properly but I believe it should be up to the writer on which writing style they prefer. I happen to write very nicely in cursive but there are people, many of which are teachers and doctors whose cursive is atrocious! LOL I'm not sure about you but I think that doctors should HAVE to print prescriptions instead of handwriting them. :-)

Answer 4

generally by 0.33 grade your baby could desire to start to place in writing cursive. although, many states do no longer require that it extremely is taught. I teach fourth grade and a selection of of of my pupils can no longer write in cursive. My objective is they could all sign their call in cursive. it extremely is unhappy that it extremely isn't any longer taught like it was yet i will comprehend with each and every thing else that is going on interior the colleges why it extremely is neglected. My advice to parents is to ask the teachers to deliver abode prepare worksheets that the scholars can use exceptionally in the event that they have undesirable handwriting. I do this with manuscript besides for my pupils with poor handwriting. additionally, downloading prepare sheets could be discovered on line and used at abode by the scholars. sturdy success!

Answer 5

Probably--this is the way writing was always taught in the past,
and they had beautiful handwriting! Printing is considered
calligraphy. Handwriting is the way we communicate. It's
flowing style is the fastest way to get information on paper.

Just as when you learn printing, you switch to handwriting--if
you learn handwriting first, it's easy to switch over to printing.

Answer 6

manuscript is almost obsolete, except in the court system.........thanks to the new "technology" we have now