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nobbyken · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^

Hi,

At our elementary school, a couple of students have been to America for a year and learnt American handwriting style.

Is this the norm for all American school pupils?

If so, can anybody provide locations any teaching resources on this style of writing?
(More to educate myself!)

Thanks,
Ken

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

Lynns · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Location: Korea

It is a newer method of teaching handwriting. It is supposed to make the transition from printing to cursive easier. I don't know any sites, but the name of this type of writing is D'Nealian, so if you google that you will find sites that explain it.

Alyallen

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

The Shining Star books I am working through with one of my classes at the moment has some sections on cursive writing. The "how to" parts are not very good, and I dont have enough time to give them good lessons on it.

However, I have been told that the exposure will be good for them as there are some parts of the TOEFOL test that require reading cursive.

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pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

I learned cursive around 5th or 6th grade. I remember that after we learned to write it, it was mandatory for the rest of the year.

After that, it was all personal preference if we wanted to write in cursive or not. I think the important thing is knowing how to read cursive.

nobbyken · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^

Yeah, cursive it is.

I first heard this term last week, and I thought the student was asking if she could write swear words Confused

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I will google it, I was pretty sure no one else called it "joined-up" writing outside my family.LOL

Thanks so much,
Ken

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

The Exploring English series uses quite a bit of cursive as well, which is a little annoying because they will use it in the example sentences. I've found that most of my students pick up on reading it pretty quickly, but learning to write it is a bit more of a challenge. If you want a good way to kill a couple of weeks, throw in a couple of minutes of cursive lessons each day. My kids enjoy it as a break from grammar and reading. I'm teaching cursive to a class of kids around the 11-12 age range, and they like it, especially the girls. I've already seen one girl doodling "Super Junior" in cursive on her notebook.