Cursive at home

[Anonymous]

What’s a good book for a 7-8 year old to learn cursive at home? I want a good start over summer so it’s easier to pick up during the school year (I think they learn last half of 2nd grade?)

[Anonymous]

A lot of schools have eliminated it because it’s very rarely used. Maybe learn to read it but it’s so tedious and unnecessary to learn to write it.

[Anonymous]

Here are some free worksheets:

https://www.k5learning.com/cursive-writing-worksheets

My children learned in Montessori. So funny how parents say it's too tedious to learn cursive yet want their kids to take Calculus in junior year of high school. Okay.

Do we really want humans not to be able to write words on a piece of paper?

[Anonymous]

Handwriting Without Tears and Getty-Dubay.

[Anonymous]

I bought a cursive wipe clean book for my 6 yo to learn on. After that, I may get a real program like Cursive Logic. I hate the look of the cursive in Handwriting Without Tears and wasn’t impressed with the manuscript workbooks for kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Zaner Bloser. Start with 2c.

[Anonymous]

I got a book off Amazon. My son showed an interest in learning (they don't teach it in school) so I got him this:

https://a.co/d/e0YZWnJ

[Anonymous]

Cursive writing is very important for the neurological benefits it provides (connecting hand action and brain function), fine motor skills, etc… Better to have a child doing a couple of pages of cursive writing than hooked to a screen.

[Anonymous]

We like Cheerful Cursive. There’s some Christian content to it. There are little characters for the different strokes and it’s very cute and easy - one page a day is not too much work. My son seems to be learning pretty well and having fun with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of schools have eliminated it because it’s very rarely used. Maybe learn to read it but it’s so tedious and unnecessary to learn to write it.

Disagree. It it extremely beneficial for brain development. It helps activate neural pathways that optimize overall learning. California is now requiring it to be taught in schools once more due to increased evidence of benefits. Kids are harder a harder and harder time focusing overall even though school work is becoming easier and more automated. Cursive should come back and be taught everywhere, starting at an even younger age, to optimize the learning and brain development benefits. My kids went to Montessori and learned it in kindergarten. They still use it now in middle school when they write.


https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240122-california-signs-cursive-writing-into-law-what-are-the-brain-benefits


https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/04/30/should-schools-require-children-to-learn-cursive/the-benefits-of-cursive-go-beyond-writing

[Anonymous]

my 16 year old can't read it.

[Anonymous]

She can't read it, but can sign

[Anonymous]

Cursive First is an excellent curriculum, and very easy to implement. It is ostensibly written to pair with a reading program for K, but works very well on its own for an older child.

[Anonymous]

Youtube videos or parent who knows.
Start with the easy letter. They don't have to make up a word. Easy letters are a,e,i,l,o,t,u.
The slightly harder ones are c,j,y,g. I totally made this up, but there are clearly easier letters and harder ones. Figure out what they are for you child. For my kid is the s and r because they are totally different in print.
Do the capitol ones later. Also, there are many different ways to write cursive. I make Capital A two different ways. I wouldn't push the 'right way'. Let them make it their own.

[Anonymous]

Another rec for Handwriting Without Tears