Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo Niccoli, a 15th Century Italian, for “inventing” our modern-day cursive, although it had been evolving long before ...

Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that ... made with lightly-colored letters to trace over. What do you think so far?

They are writing off cursive script. At a growing number of schools, young students are no longer tracing curving L's and arching D's with pencil and paper, no longer pausing at the end of words ...

Data analysis showed that cursive handwriting primed the brain ... Engelhardt found that handwriting (but not typing or tracing letter shapes) activated a unique "reading circuit" in the brain.