Explore research on handwriting automaticity and sentence construction, plus strategies to improve writing instruction across grades K–3.

You default to typing because it’s faster, more convenient, and digitally organized. But what if speed is costing you ...

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Schools in Finland, it has been reported, are phasing out the teaching of handwriting skills, a claim that has led to ...

Learning Curve 2.0, from designer Jess Latham of Blue Vinyl Fonts, actually includes two similar fonts—one solid, one dashed—in both TrueType and OpenType formats. Both demonstrate the beautiful ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain ...

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

For most people, the written thank-you is your best bet for an expression of warm, heartfelt thanks. The last thing you want is for someone to be disappointed when her hand-knit scarf is acknowledged ...