#085: Why Your Students Need to be Writing More Than They Type
What's so great about writing by hand when we live on our screens? I hear it more than you'd think. Honestly, teaching students to write, especially in cursive, is a touchy topic. It seems so benign…it’s just writing. What’s to get all hopped up about?! But we do.
While printing seems to be pretty firmly established still as a norm in kindergarten and first grades, penmanship and certainly cursive are not. And why not? That answer is simple...time and keyboards.
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I'll be honest with you, there was a time when I thought cursive was not that important until I started reading the research.
Handwriting is not a waste of time! It's a slow down so your students can speed up later on strategy. Let me explain a bit. Writing by hand, both printing and cursive, activates parts of the brain that control learning and memory. This in turn opens the brain to new learning. Pretty cool, right?! Well... that's only the tip of the iceberg.
In this episode, find out:
- How writing by hand enhances learning to read.
- How cursive helps students with dyslexia.
- Other benefits to writing by hand and specifically writing in cursive.
- When to use handwriting and when to type.
- How writing by hand helps learning stick.
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