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When Should Cursive Writing Be Taught
Do you know that if you wright in cursive you develop one side of your brain that is not developed by basic reading and writing skills. And kids need to be writing by hand more often because, when they wright by hand there brain is absorbing more info than if they were typing on the computer. If teaching cursive is eliminated from schools, children will miss out on having there brain learn something new. The world is becoming more and more technology dependent. Cursive should be taught in schools not on computers. Because cursive writing requires a very different skill of writing and cursive can come in many different kinds of writing, because cursive is a form of writing that looks different and cursive is a writing that only you can master in your own way to make it look different. Cursive involves using our hand muscles in a …show more content…
Some people argue that the time teaching cursive writing Is over that it would be easer to be teaching kids how to type on a keyboard. They should keep teaching cursive because when students are taught in the way we wright on tests now in only one form of writing. They get only one chance to learn and memorize the letters. By having to learn cursive as well use students get another opportunity to fully comprehend the alphabet. Learning cursive also gives students a clearer understanding of how letters are formed, which will improve the cursive print writing as well. These are some of the things that people need to sign In cursive. 1. your name 2. when your at the doctor 3. when your getting a house 4. when you are making a deposit box 5.when your writing a check 6.when your taking a collage test 7. When your signing an important file 8.when your signing a bill 9.when your buying something that requires your signature in cursive 10.when your getting a new job 11.when your at a restaurant and when you haft to sign the

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