This blog is sponsored by the Southern California Chapter of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation (AHAF).
Our Main Objective is to raise awareness among educators and legislators of the importance of mastering cursive handwriting for the physical and emotional benefits in the development of the child.
Our End Goal: Develop outreach programs to educators and legislators and lobby for retention/reestablishment of teaching cursive in the classrooms.
If that's an article on "why learning cursive is so important," why is cursive never mentioned in the article or depicted in its illustrations? The handwriting that's illustrated in the piece is printing, not cursive at all. Please explain how you decided that an article which illustrates print-writing, and is not about cursive at all, is about "why learning cursive is so important."
Thanks for linking this blog about the importance of handwriting.
While Kate Gladstone is of course, impeccably correct in informing us all that the blog doesn't include or even reference cursive; it is actually deeply informative about what it is about, which is the vital importance of pre-cursive handwriting.
As someone who teaches art to young children, I enjoy redirecting their focus from technological products to crayons, pens, pastels and paper. And in my experience, children who have repeated exposure to 'handedness' as Trevor Cainey so eloquently terms it, those children grow up with vivid imaginations, great relationships with words and a level of communication skills that they just cannot access typing on computers...
Thanks for sharing and, I do in fact, see it as a welcome accompaniment to Campaign For Cursive.
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ReplyDeleteIf that's an article on "why learning cursive is so important," why is cursive never mentioned in the article or depicted in its illustrations? The handwriting that's illustrated in the piece is printing, not cursive at all. Please explain how you decided that an article which illustrates print-writing, and is not about cursive at all, is about "why learning cursive is so important."
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking this blog about the importance of handwriting.
ReplyDeleteWhile Kate Gladstone is of course, impeccably correct in informing us all that the blog doesn't include or even reference cursive; it is actually deeply informative about what it is about, which is the vital importance of pre-cursive handwriting.
As someone who teaches art to young children, I enjoy redirecting their focus from technological products to crayons, pens, pastels and paper. And in my experience, children who have repeated exposure to 'handedness' as Trevor Cainey so eloquently terms it, those children grow up with vivid imaginations, great relationships with words and a level of communication skills that they just cannot access typing on computers...
Thanks for sharing and, I do in fact, see it as a welcome accompaniment to Campaign For Cursive.