McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

Since the 2018-2019 school year, elementary schools in Illinois have been required by law to offer cursive lessons. Students are not required to take cursive lessons, but the school must offer it.

Brooks has never stopped teaching cursive. Last month, she announced the beginning of cursive lessons — and excited oohs and aahs reverberated around the room.

Third-graders at the school beamed as they prepared for a cursive lesson this past week. The 8-year-olds got their markers out, straightened their posture and flexed their wrists.

Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by ...

Cursive lessons forge important pathways that benefit all types of learning “To the human brain, the act of handwriting is very different from punching letters on a keyboard.

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McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” she said.

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.