" CURSIVE HANDWRITING OR KEY BOARD TYPING "

 How important it is to learn writing in Cursive than typing in a keyboard for KIDDYS:
  

 

             
                                     

In the cellular world of this 21st century one would wonder whether it is really necessary for his child to learn how to write in cursive. Most of the parents answer to this would be 50-50 because the internet and global communication has made this world to bounce itself within in a nutshell.
Even the Montessori teachers have been digging their mind for years whether children should learn to write first in cursive or print, we've all been thinking that cursive was an essential skill.
Now there is a tough debate booming in the field of education whether in this age of wireless technology, cursive writing is really essential or not for the kids in the kindergarten.
Many schools across the country are reducing or removing cursive writing from their curriculum and only few have decided to keep it for the sake of preservation.

   A recent article in Psychology Today... quoted by researchers that Children from second to fifth graders wrote more words faster and brought in many informativeness and ideas while writing poems and essays by hand than with a keyboard.  
Cursive writing helps to visualize more tactile information. It also helps to train the brain and fine motor dexterity. The regions of brain that are activated during reading were activated during handwriting, but not while typing.

There are 5 good reasons why Cursive writing should be taught at school: 
In today's modern era cursive writing is nearly being extinct with computers and tablets emerging as a major source of writing. Even the teachers feel that the time taken to teach cursive would be spent on teaching some thing extra on the keyboard.
But the benefits of cursive are that it reinforces learning experience. When the child is taught the language in only one form, print and writing, they get very less chance to memorize the letters. By learning to write cursive they get another chance to fully comprehend the alphabets. This gives them a clear understanding of how letters are formed, which will help them to improve their writing print.
In the case of Legal documents like deed and checks, signing is yet another reason to learn cursive.
Students with the disabilities like dyslexia have a hard time writing in print because the letter for example "b" and "d" looks similar. Cursive writing helps them to be more confident and gaining fast.
Cursive writing develops the motor skills of the child.


Cursive writing requires a very different skill set from print writing. It involves using the hand muscles in a different way. Additionally, it activates a different part of the brain than regular writing does. At the age cursive is taught, around 7 or 8 years old, these skills can be very beneficial in furthering motor skill development.

In turn, many other skills will benefit. Some administrators argue that the time teaching cursive writing would be better spent teaching keyboard skills. In this case, students do not actually have to use their hands to create the letters, lowering retention rates and risking motor skills development altogether

Without being able to read cursive writing, students will undoubtedly be kept from many opportunities to read important documents. Many historical documents are written in cursive. While some of these documents are readily available online in print form, not all of them are.

Not only will students miss out on a part of history, they may very well miss out on reading important letters and cards from their grandparents or great-grandparents. The older generation still writes in cursive on a daily basis. Kids often rely on their parents to translate these letters and cards for them because they simply cannot read the cursive writing. Forty years from now, when these grandparents have passed on, kids may want to look back on these letters, and they should be able to read them.


If teaching cursive writing is eliminated from schools, children will miss out on a lot. Though the world is becoming more and more technology dependent, there is something to be said for retaining a part of classic writing skills in the curriculum. Cursive reinforces the mantra that learning should simply be for learning — not just to pass a test.  -- Shaark BeBe .....