Cursive Writing: Beneficial or Lost Art?

Originally published in TEACH Magazine, May/June 2015 Issue

By Meagan Gillmore

Want to build your students’ minds and bodies, or just need something new to add to your art lessons? You might want to consider re-introducing handwriting.

Sylvia Chiang can teach students different languages. She’s taught French for more than a decade. But this past school year, the Toronto teacher discovered that some students in her Grade 5 core French class couldn’t understand the lessons. It wasn’t a matter of learning her spoken words. Rather, they couldn’t decipher her written ones.

Meagan Gillmore

Meagan Gillmore is a freelance writer in Toronto, ON.