Alphabets differ in other respects, too: whether or not their capital A looks like a giant lowercase A, for example. Choose (or invent!) a style you like, and stick with it.

But Martin uses the screen to teach her students a concept older than the one-room school house: how to write in cursive. “Two humps, like a camel,” she says, as she forms a lowercase “n” and then, ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive as part of their weekly library instruction.