Cursive, it’s a writing style that only so many people can read. When cursive was mandatory to learn, there were many students who could read that sentence above. But the number of people who can read cursive is starting to decline. 25-33 percent of students can’t read cursive, and that number is only going up. Why? Because cursive is no longer required to be taught. Since it is optional, many teachers decided to not include it in their lessons, the main reason being they want to teach students what they believe is more important, like keyboarding. Although students are starting to use typing more, cursive should become part of the common core curriculum standards because cursive increases creativity and the use of brain cells, improves reading …show more content…
According to Bateman, a representative from Idaho, "Modern research indicates that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard(Smyth, 2013)". This concludes that more of your brain is at work when you write in cursive than when you use the keyboard, making your brain stronger and smarter. Secondly, cursive improves a student’s reading and writing skills. According to to a recent article by Julie Smyth, “Cursive advocates cite recent brain science that indicates the fluid motion employed when writing script enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine motor skills, in turn promoting reading, writing and cognition skills(2013)”. This displays that when the brain is engaged in cursive, it increases their reading, penmanship, and processing skills, making them faster and better at all everything listed above. Finally, writing cursive allows students to read cursive. According to a 2013 article by Julie Smyth, “They further argue that scholars of the future will lose the ability to interpret valuable cultural resources--historical documents, ancestors' letters and journals, handwritten scholarship--if they can't read cursive(2013)”. This shows that if students don’t learn how to write cursive, they could struggle reading important records that were written in cursive, or even a friend who writes / in
Does anyone know what the leading cause to less cursive writing is? Well, I'll tell you! Studies show that teachers have no time for cursive, teachers are too busy readying kids for the next level of teaching. They also have to worry about grading and teaching cursive the right way. In my experience of cursive writing we spent about 10 minutes a day for probably only 3 days and we never got finished, until we moved on to something else more important. Upper level teachers are wanting kids to be ready at any cost and that leaves us why we don’t have time for cursive.
Living in the Southern United States during eighteenth century was a difficult time for African-Americans. Majority of them were slaves who received manipulation, sexual abuse and brutally whips to the spin. They were treated this way in order to stop them from gaining hope, knowledge and understanding of the world. Some African Americans managed to obtain these qualities from books and use them to escape from slavery. Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist who wrote an autobiography, from which the excerpt "Learning to Read and Write" explains how he developed literacy. In the excerpt, an African American slave banned from learning to read and write, breaks the law in an attempt to free his mind from the restricted beliefs of his master. One significant idea portrayed from Douglass's ordeal is that reading and writing is a vital skill that benefits humanity.
Numerous intellectuals have debated on the effects that typography has on the mind. An example of two such intellectuals are Walter Ong and Neil Postman. In Walter Ong’s “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought” he describes the difference between oral and typographic cultures and the resulting effects each had on the mind while in Chapter 4 of Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” similarly focuses on how typography has molded the way that we think, which has become very structured and writing-like, and how that effects public discourse. Overall, both their pieces serve to demonstrate how typography arrogates itself into our lives and is forever embedded in our conscious and unconscious mind, which illuminates how technology is
Handwriting is a means of expressing language, just like speech. However, handwriting is not taught in school as much as in previous years. In the past, handwriting was taught as a precursor to reading and spelling. Today, students of all ages are rigorously tested on their writing skills, yet they are not allowed the time it takes to develop this skill. I remember writing in a Big Chief notebook, holding a chubby pencil, trying my best to make the curves and lines of the letters just right. When I attended elementary school, the teacher devoted at least forty-five minutes to handwriting each day. Handwriting should still be taught in school because it is an essential first step to reading and expressing one’s thoughts and feelings and because of its impact on higher education.
With technology on the rise students will be spending more time typing, and less time actually writing. Rafael Guerrero states in his article “Are We Seeing the Death of Cursive?” that “[I]n the minds of some, the need for teachers to spend more time getting students to meet state standards and master computer technology has made cursive less relevant.” A large concern for teachers today is to get students to the point of being able to satisfy state standards rather than teaching them material which will benefit them in the future. Teaching third graders how to write in cursive has been one of the main lessons taught for years. Just because the technology is on the rise it should not mean that children do not get the same education generations before have received. Depriving children of this knowledge would be unfair. Students need this writing skill in order to read historical documents from the past. Students will also need to know it when they take the PSAT and SAT in high school for the written statement. Teaching young children how to write in a whole new form of writing is a daunting task, but it is a necessity for them to be able to develop properly and succeed in
What would the world be like if cursive wasn’t invented? Cursive should not be taught in schools. It is sometimes difficult to learn cursive. Depending on how the teachers teach and the age of the student it could be a very long process to learn cursive.
This method is great for people who like structure and is by no means for every person in the world. It sets rules and strict guidelines that may hurt the creative process for many people. Yet, it will also help you to avoid plot holes. And it will save you from spending unnecessary time trying to figure out where the story should go. Either way it is a great method if you are looking to try something new.
Focusing on cursive writing becoming a common core standard is a waste of time as technology is growing and is becoming more common. Let's focus on good ways to improve writing within the technology that we use. After all its just becoming a more popular way of the way we write today. Learning how to use a computer now days is more beneficial than learning cursive writing.
...he Constitution or Declaration of Independence- the very documents that contain the values and morals of our country. Cursive handwriting is no longer taught in many schools, thus impairing student’s ability to create neural passageways, improve fluency, and gain dexterity. Sure, there is no particular daily need for the delicate script, but letting the writing go extinct is unethical. Many countries describe the USA as lazy and culture poor- we need to prove these other nations wrong. Not only for the benefit of getting a better reputation, but also because we respect our language and want to preserve it for future generations. The death of cursive can cease. There is a vaccine, a cure, an antidote. This cure? Teaching the language in schools once again, typing less and scribing more, and most importantly informing individuals about the value of this set of ABC’s.
“One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don’t require teaching students to write in cursive.” (Heitin). This has been one of its biggest problems from the day Common Core was
Cursive writing is very important, even though its not required by law because kids have there phones and computers and all other technology and internet so kids don’t really write much unless they are in school then kids have to write. But before all the technology experts said, handwriting is being sacrificed for the sake of technology's convenience. And what that means is technology ruined cursive and regular handwriting because all kids and some adults have to do is press "send" and then its that simple they don’t need to write in any kind of handwriting if all they have to do is press send. Some kids even have auto correct on there phones, so they don’t have to worry about spelling things correct.
When is the last time you wrote in cursive besides writing your signature? If you answered honestly, it has probably been months if not years since you have last written a letter or document in cursive. Cursive is a style of penmanship that supposedly allows you to write faster by connecting the flow of the letters together. The handwriting is most popular among the older generation. State legislatures are currently going back and forth discussing if cursive writing should be included in the Common Core curriculum for students. Debates have arisen in the nation as to why or why not cursive writing is important for students to learn. Do you feel that your child should be using cursive in the classroom setting? Realistic and understanding parents would probably answer no. Indeed, cursive writing should be eliminated from the Common Core curriculum for students because it is a waste of their valuable class time and it is a useless skill in our world today.
In life you have everyday obstacles that you are faced with, some obstacles are big and some are small, but in spite of the obstacles you strive to overcome them. Learning to read and write was a huge obstacle for me because when I was younger I didn’t care about anything but video games and toys. Later, as I grew up I saw the importance of those essentials and eventually learned how to read and write. Even though I could read and write I had to face a lot of adversity just because I stutter. It 's times where I had to read out loud and was so nervous that I would stuttered, or times where I would be talking and get tongue tied and people would laugh, but as I got older I stop caring what people think of me and overcame it.
Thesis: Cursive writing should be taught in school because children today only know how to hashtag and text. Very few actually know how to write in cursive. Learning cursive will enhance students’ spelling ability and reading skills. It will also help students with learning disabilities.
There are about 70 million people who are deaf and use sign language as there first language. Only very few people who can hear regularly, use sign language. That means about 253.1 million people don’t know sign language in the US. This leaves those who are deaf with very few people to communicate with and then students will not be able to communicate with there peers because they don't have a class to teach them sign language. Sign language should be a foreign language class that students can take in high school because more people will be able to communicate with those who are deaf,and it gives students better job opportunities.