A plea for the elimination of required instruction in cursive script from the elementary school curriculum. Difficulties of learning cursive are described as a handicap to student development of composition skills. Greater legibility and comparable speed of printing are cited. (BF)

Close relationships between visuo-motor ability, copying, tracing, tracking, and writing performances were hypothesized as were the main effects of the experimental program with concern to the educational, psycho-motor skills in question. In general, predictions were confirmed by data in this study of 36 third graders. (Author/SJL)

Research related to methods for building competency in spelling has yielded information about three areas of teaching: word selection, generalizations to be taught, and application of spelling skills to writing. Research on word selection indicates that teachers should choose basic, high-frequency words for children to learn to spell, giving…

Advocates a curriculum in which students are taught to use standard "k'ai" forms passively in reading, while learning to use cursive forms actively in writing. (FWB)

Ten severely and profoundly mentally retarded students were instructed in cursive and manuscript writing. (CL)

The proceedings of a conference (University of Wisconsin, 1961) on the methodology and quality of handwriting research are presented in this book. After introductory remarks on current educational research, papers are presented on the following topics: (1) current (l960) teaching practices in handwriting in the United States, (2) the use of…

In this collection of articles, the results of recent research in handwriting and spelling are reported and evaluated in the perspective of studies done over the past 50 years. The articles included are "Handwriting and Spelling: Their Current Status in the Language Arts Curriculum,""Handwriting Research" ("Movement and Quality" and "Style and…

Soon after "Prescription for Ailing penmanship" (EJ 153 105) appeared in this journal, two readers sent in their adaptations and expansion of the idea, including several "newly discovered" ailments. Here are their descriptions, diagnoses and treatments of strokenemia, messiosis, numberalgia and two secondary manifestations of "t"sles and…

This review of research on handwriting and the legibility of print suggests that: (1) teachers' handwriting is less legible today than in the past, (2) manuscript should replace cursive writing in the classroom, and (3) letter size and case, leading, line length, and spacing between letters are the critical factors for legibility. (JMB)

Children become frustrated in learning cursive writing, says the author, who offers some helpful suggestions. (Editor/RK)

This study was designed to compare the speed and legibility of intermediate grade pupils' handwriting who have been instructed in two different styles of handwriting, manuscript and cursive. The subjects consisted of 108 intermediate grade pupils, boys and girls. Raw score data from the Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Test, Beta Test: Form A,…

By popular demand, Dr. B. P. Pen returns with additional techniques for healthy handwriting. (Editor)