Penmanship is Important By: Sydney Do you find yourself using technology more and simply writing by hand less? In case you didn’t know, penmanship is the art or skill of writing by hand. Penmanship is a skill we have had ever since we were little. Penmanship is involved in our everyday lives, is a big part in lowered academic success, and becoming less and less important in this day and age. Therefore, penmanship needs to be considered more important because if its everyday appearance in our lives
studies show. Penmanship is going the way of a lost art, even in homeschools. “Handwriting is 50 percent of literacy, but children are seeing less and less formal handwriting instruction,” said Toni Schulken, a child occupational therapist who is dedicated to increasing writing literacy. Vanderbilt University research reveals that children spend just ten minutes a day practicing print and cursive. In many homeschools, parents are simply too buried in lesson plans to squeeze in penmanship. In an effort
There are various opinions in academia whether or not we should still teach cursive writing in schools. Many people believe that computer technology has made cursive writing obsolete and an unnecessary form of writing. Most lawmakers and educational institutions still support and mandate that handwriting be taught in schools. This research will cover the history of cursive writing and its purpose over printing; whether it still serves a valuable purpose; and whether computers will replace the need
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
USA today has posted a statistic saying that there are 41 states that do not require cursive to be taught(Tarshis). As of recently the Common Core standards do not require penmanship, specifically cursive, as they use to in favor of typing and print. Cursive Writing is an unnecessary skill that should not be taught. With the digital age growing and devices being more and more common the ability to write in flowing letters is not needed. Anne Trubek Brings to attention the bonuses of typing at a
Ron Padgett, the author of Creative Reading, recalls how he learned to read and write as though these things happened yesterday. Like Padgett, I tried recalling my reading and writing history. When my parents read to me, they enjoyed reading Dr. Suess books, which became popular with the publication of The Cat In The Hat. I was only interested in looking at books with color. When the books were colorful they grabbed my attention quickly. I couldn’t wait for my parents to come in my room at
The narrator of “Penmanship” is a man madly in love in the art of writing. It is through entering the enchanting world of pen and paper that he is able to face the complexities of reality like social cancer (corruption), violence (murder) and fiery emotions (love) with strength and confidence. He could feel “a twinge of sorrow” every time he mails a letter because he had voluntarily given away a part of himself. I think for him (and may I boldly include everybody else who writes) that every word
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
Cursive writing is a form of penmanship that flows by joining letters together with loops so that the writing motion is continuous and therefore more efficient because the pen does not have to lift off the page as often. Although cursive has been the primary method of writing for centuries, it has been slowly disappearing over the last decade in our primary schools. According to the US Today, 41 states have removed cursive writing instruction from their mandatory curriculum (qtd. Tarshis 6). There
For the past few years, many educators around the United States have debated the decision of whether or not it is necessary to continue teaching cursive handwriting in elementary schools seeing as most classes are now being taught with computers. The decision left independently to each school, one may worry about the education of future generations and what effects may take place if classic standards are removed from the school system, replaced with a modern and technological way of teaching. Many
Grace Dupuy Mrs. Bauch Speech 13 May, 2016 Cursive Writing How many of you remember your elementary teacher telling you that you would write in cursive all of the time in middle and high school and that cursive is very important to learn? I do, and I am going to ask, how many of you actually still write in cursive? Today I am going to be informing you about teaching cursive in school and if it?s still worth students time. Many students are not being taught cursive in schools now that the common
Handwriting Matters Have you ever wondered why your kids never bring home a notebook, but instead it's a computer or tablet? Well if you have it's because it's true, technology is taking over our world, classrooms have resorted to using computers and tablets to do most of their teaching and grading on. Yes it is more efficient and probably faster, but handwriting skills are a great thing to have. I agree that you also need strong computer and keyboard skills because, like I said technology is taking
Cursive in School “When children are exposed to cursive handwriting, changes occur in their brains that allows a child to overcome motor challenges” -Dr. David Sortino psychologist and current director of Education Strategies (3). On average a child in the United States learns cursive in the third or fourth grade. Students practice day in and day out perfecting the loopy writing style. Some kids achieve success in cursive in the first few weeks. Cursive even brings joy and confidence to some kids
Opponents of Cursive Writing: In this highly contested debate over cursive writing, there are many individuals who oppose the implementation of cursive writing in a standardized curriculum. In this research article, these individuals will be referred to as the opponents of cursive writing. One of the major reasons for this debate is the lack of directive in the Common Core when it comes to teaching cursive. Instead, the Common Core dictates that “students should be able to navigate a computer and
Marian Wright Edelman once said, “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” With the way education is changing today, is it improving the lives of students and changing the community or destroying it? In several different articles, people are saying that education is changing and not improving the lives of many students. Teachers are being treated differently and students are not learning as much. This should not be happening
Phonemic Awareness and Alphabetic Principle in addition to Phonics and Decoding Skills provide students with early skills of understanding letters and words in order to build their reading and writing skills. Students will need to recognize how letters make a sound in order to form a word. While each word has a different meaning to be to format sentences. While reading strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction, I was able to find three strategies for Phonemic Awareness and three strategies
Cursive is a great thing to learn and should be taught in schools. Cursive helps your brain, it's important to sign your name on documents, and you can read things in cursive from history. Learning cursive is something everyone should know has to be kept in school. Keep reading to find my reasons why. Writing in cursive helps your brain more than you think. Cursive writing can help generate more ideas and you can gather more information. On another note, cursive can help students or people with
Should We Keep Cursive Handwriting? Cursive handwriting has been a debate around the world for a while now. Some people say that cursive handwriting is a need. Other people say that it takes up time that could be used for other subjects that are more important. Cursive handwriting is very important for many ways. It is also very important for your future. So, is cursive handwriting a need, or a waste? People in a lot of places are becoming completely dependent on machines to send messages and
Cursive handwriting has been taught in American schools for the past 300 years and once was the principle way of communicating (Blazer, 2010). The declining emphasis of learning cursive handwriting can be attributed technological advances. The debate over the value of handwriting instruction didn’t start with the introduction of the computer; it dates back to the debut of the Remington typewriter in 1873 and is revived with each new technological advance, including the Dictaphone, the Xerox machine
Students should be graded on their handwriting For centuries writing was the tool used by humans to record the information and knowledge. They used different ways of writing, mostly all of those writings were taught to the generation that followed. The Greek had one type, the old Egyptians, and the Chinese. All of those old civilizations taught the upcoming generations their way of writing, so the knowledge and information could be passed to the future generations. But all of those ways had to be