I believe that you should be taught handwriting in elementary school. Parents, students, and teacher might not agree, but I think it’s a good idea. Learning handwriting in elementary signature, and it makes your handwriting prettier. Learning handwriting in elementary school can help you and many ways. Making your handwriting better will really help you throughout your life. Some people write good and some people might not. A lot of people do not care what their handwriting looks like. For example, say that you have a project that has to be neat how are you suppose to get a good grade on it. Everyone needs to learn handwriting to help your writing style. Better handwriting is a good way to be a good writer.
After reading this article I saw a different perspective on why children cannot write. In today’s world grammar is being put to the side and not focused on in the classroom. It seemed like it was the children that tried to avoid learning grammar. English class in the past were filled with lessons on grammar. Grammar was enforced in every aspect of schooling.
There are also reasons that cursive should be taught. Studies show it broadens the brain and makes think more while writing in cursive. It also brings out more inner thoughts in the brain. Someday we will need cursive for car signature, loans, student loan, and a lot more things that require cursive. Studies also show that it activates different parts of the brain and shows fine motor skills towards kids.
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.
You only really need cursive to sign for houses, cars, and checks. Cursive can be very difficult for some kids to learn. They can get very confused very easily because of all the lines and movements. It can also depend on how old the kid is, if he's younger it will probably be a lot more difficult compared to if he was older. Usually kids learn how to right all of the letters then the hardest part is putting then into sentences and being able to understand it.
What benefits does cursive writing hold, if students were to learn? Phsycologists found that if students hand write vs. type they remember better what was wriiten down. Well who said you need to know cursive to hand write? There is something called fine print, and we use that everyday of our lives. You just don't need cursive anymore. That is why it should never be required.
“Phenomenologically, Donny and Timmy were not growing up in a literate environment. Although they lived in a home situation in a city situated in a country that contained many forms and functions for print, they did not experience it. They did not notice it around them; they did not understand its uses. Their world functioned without written language” (Purcell-Gates, 1997, p. 58).
With the swarm of technology, handwriting, a vital skill, may be on the brink of extinction, despite that it is able to create a “model citizen, assimilate immigrants, and even reform juvenile delinquents” (Korper). Believe it or not: handwriting is important. However, the debate about handwriting is still questionable. Handwriting allows for effective memory retention and is an significant and unique action to develop certain regions of your brain (Grossberg). However, handwriting is also outdated and lacks the agility of the keyboard (Korper). Nonetheless, some of these positive aspects of handwriting are largely due to the ‘drill’ factor emphasized in the Palmer Method of handwriting used present day (Korper).
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Dr. Laura Dineheart explains that motor functions are increased with cursive writing. Along with increased motor function comes better academic achievement and retention of the information being written. Moreover, she believes that if children learn how to write cursive proficiently, then the child will be a better
Education can be a powerful tool for people to use. With the right type and amount of knowledge, most people can accomplish what others dream to do for a living. All over the United States, there are plenty of schools and possibly five or ten times that amount in students that attend them. Each school is unique in certain ways, such as one school might offer AP programs to cater to students who are capable of advancing faster than others. While another school might be focused on getting students into early entry-level positions within their chosen career fields.
To begin with, cursive gives us the skills we need in life. People have better memory if they have learned cursive. We need to remember how to write cursive and actually think about what we`re writing about. Cursive also helps our brains develop better, it uses the left and right side at the same time. Cursive gives us motor skills, which would have benefits if you want be a mechanic.
First of all, like I said for cursive writing, no one really has to pick up their pencil, then going back to print there’s more of picking up your pencil which takes more time. Secondly cursive writing is basically just like writing squiggly forms of lines and writing squiggly lines is way faster than print. Third of all you’re normal print is more time because of how long there words can be is its long you’re going to have to take more time on that than on cursive writing. Lastly writing neatly with cursive writing, your writing will look good because cursive writing the writing looks fancy. But with print or your non cursive handwriting may look messy if you’re writing way to fast of just
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some people think that teaching cursive writing is frustrating. But it is 50% of literacy. Cursive writing may help those with special needs, keeps our brains active in old age, and we still use it today. In my opinion, cursive should be taught in schools because it can help kids that can’t write regular writing.
Cursive; Is it essential in the education of public schools? In my opinion, the answer would to this question would be yes. I will provide three reasons that cursive is essential in public education.Three reasons that support the importance of cursive writing are that it helps students with their dyslexia, developes fine motor-skills and it exercises and stimulates both hemispheres of the brain.
When I was in high school, I was very involved in the arts. I took a band, choir and two years of visual art. During the years of high school, I knew that the fees for the art courses cost much more than other electives at my school. I also observed that the school focused more on their athletic and academics programs, than on their art programs. We had many fundraisers to raise more money for the art programs even after paying an already expensive fee to takes these electives. Schools are neglecting the visual arts programs and placing all of their money and focus on academics and athletics programs. I propose a balance between the arts, academics, and the athletics.
As I stated in my previous reflective essay, I hated writing in grade school. I sucked my teeth and groaned every time my teachers assigned an essay for homework. I don’t actually hate writing. I just disliked it because I never excelled in it. I wrote just to get the job done, but never took the time to pay attention to the writing process and the other aspects of writing. As I grew older and got a career, I realized how important writing was in the real world. From friends revising your status updates on Facebook that were plagued in grammatical errors or writing a professional email to your boss, writing skills are crucial to the real world.