https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:54:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive/page/2#post-1453902 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:28:38 +0000 Mommy Finger 1453902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember taking the GMAT, I think, at one of those computerized testing centers and I had to copy an entire paragraph in cursive that they would use later as a way to make sure I was who I said I was if it was ever called into question. I was taught cursive in school but didn't use it much. It took everything I had to remember how to write certain letters in cursive. I was almost embarrassed but the testing person said it happened all the time. </p> <p>If they take away teaching cursive, I don't think it would bother me too much but for the love of all things holy, let's keep teaching spelling!!!! I can't believe how illiterate people sound/look sometimes based on how they write. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive/page/2#post-1453087 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:18:45 +0000 MrsTiz 1453087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I actually don't know how to write cursive. I can write my name, my parents name ( :wink: ) and all lowercase letters. As far as uppercase? Nope. I only know a handful.</p> <p>My teacher in that grade was one that seemed to stick with those who weren't learning as fast, so if you understood all of the lowercase but someone in the class was having trouble with it, we kept going over and over the same thing to help them learn, which kept the rest of us from moving forward.</p> <p>And guess what? I've never had to write a paper in cursive and see no need to learn it now! The only thing I will say is that I do struggle with reading cursive if someone happens to send me something handwritten in it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive/page/2#post-1453082 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:14:15 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1453082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@char54: ++++ Thumbs up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive/page/2#post-1453076 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:08:30 +0000 pui 1453076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: They could just learn to sign their name? </p> <p>Also, I print my signature, just quickly. And I even learned cursive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive/page/2#post-1453065 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:55:58 +0000 Mamaof2 1453065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What about signing your name on documents? If you don't learn cursive how will kids do that??? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1453061 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:53:22 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1453061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: definitely not. I worked with the student daily and she was right on track... Tho maybe not academically. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1453029 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:13:30 +0000 Charm54 1453029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: that was my initial thought too, maybe a possible learning disability or special need...I've never taught a student who couldn't spell is by second grade and we are a fully inclusionary school. Or maybe a case of kids seeing it spelt like "iz" on TV, music lyrics, etc...lots of my students will mimic what they see in media for a bit even though they know how to spell it properly. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1453024 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:52:52 +0000 ladybee 1453024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: random question, is it possible the writing sample you saw was from a student with special needs? Ugh even as I ask that I know that my fourth grade students who are cognitively delayed can spell is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1453023 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:50:28 +0000 ladybee 1453023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: common core and developmentally appropriate teaching allows for them to start of spelling phoneticly. They are supposed to start spelling correctly as they learn high frequency words and by first grade they should have spelling taught. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452975 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 03:30:11 +0000 Charm54 1452975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just as an aside, I'm a K-2 teacher and some parents think we've "cut out" spelling because it doesn't look like traditional spelling that we were used to - worksheets and memorizing arbitrary lists for tests. Instead, today, research shows us there are much better ways to teach spelling. My classroom is full of word work activities - kinesthetic, auditory and visual. There is a life size, moveable word wall that is used constantly across the subject areas. Kids have their grade appropriate "no excuse word list", as well as personal word list, that they use during writing time. The most important thing we can do to help children become good spellers is have them read, read, read.</p> <p>All that to say the school might have cut out spelling in the traditional sense (which is a good thing IMO) and have replaced it with better practices (hopefully!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452938 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:22:07 +0000 sunny 1452938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't imagine not teaching spelling. Our daycare teacher has atrocious spelling &amp; grammar and it just makes her seem a bit unprofessional :-( I love her but I just hate reading the daily reports!</p> <p>For instance, she spelled "scratch" incorrectly on an incident report 3 times as "sratch". I'm guessing she also mispronounces it as well :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452930 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:12:35 +0000 Woolly Mammoth 1452930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just finished reading Raising Confident Readers, and in that book the author wrote about the importance of letting young writers use "invented spelling." He compared it to babbling. </p> <p>He didn't say that spelling shouldn't be taught, just that it should be deemphasized in preschool and kindergarten (if I understood correctly). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452731 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:10:58 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1452731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: Um, I'm pretty sure that teacher was trippin'. There's no WAY a school could cut *spelling*! </p> <p>@looch: in emerging writers, teachers often encourage writing "what you hear", but traditional spelling rules should start around 1st grade. </p> <p>I'm not going to teach my kid(s) cursive and hope they don't learn it at school either. I think it's a waste of time. I remember being seriously annoyed at all the effort it took to learn it in 3rd grade, only to have every other teacher ask us to print because our cursive was hard to read. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452403 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:13:48 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1452403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I won't make a huge deal of it, but I loved learning cursive, and still handwrite in my journals almost exclusively. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452346 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:56:37 +0000 808love 1452346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want to teach keyboarding at a young age but not worried about her missing too much in the cursive dept. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452324 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:48:19 +0000 avivoca 1452324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Absolutely! I love cursive, and working at a historical society constantly reminds me that this generation will not be able to read any historical documents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452317 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:47:10 +0000 MrsScottish 1452317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I taught grade 4/5 for 5 years and no grade 2/3. I taught it at the 4/5 level, but it wasn't extensive. They did their daily agenda in it, and did a practice booklet. I did not force them to do their daily work in hand writing but their were welcome to as long as we could read it!! I have several grade 2/3 who want to learn. It is a " what to do when I am done" thing. I think they should know how to read it, and basics of hand writing so they can at least sign their name and not print it like so many young people now!!<br /> ( and I still speak spelling but many teachers don't. Many of our parents do not do any practice at home, and it is hard to focus so much time on spelling) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452274 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:32:45 +0000 spaniellove 1452274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I taught 3rd grade and had to get together with my grade partners to send home cursive and spelling worksheets on the side because it wasn't part of the curriculum. We were considered old school for doing that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452263 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:27:47 +0000 shopaholic 1452263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What do you mean they are cutting out SPELLING?!?! That is atrocious! I think there is a lot of value to teaching cursive still. I understand it requires more patience than most people have these days, but it will be crazy to see kids growing up in a generation of amazing FONTS, yet not know how to write in cursive. Things will still need to be read in cursive.<br /> If our school didn't teach spelling, I would switch schools. If it didn't teach cursive, I would reconsider and if not switch, teach it at home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452228 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:11:54 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1452228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I temember my Mil telling us that they cut cursive from her school!</p> <p>Blows my mind. I went to Catholic school and holy cow, we practiced cursive in 2nd grade until my hand hurt. Remember the chalk holders that would draw 3 lines on the chalkboard?!</p> <p>My regular handwriting is half print half cursive! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452174 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:49:46 +0000 Mrs. M 1452174@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was obsessed with writing in cursive before they taught it in school. I associated it with being a "big kid" like my older cousins. If my daughter is interested I will definitely teach her cursive! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452020 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:44:30 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1452020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. 64: @ElbieKay: yes I would be very wary of any school claiming to be cutting spelling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1452008 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:42:16 +0000 mrs. 64 1452008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm an elementary school teacher and we still teach cursive, though definitely not to the extent that they did when we were in school. I plan on teaching my own kids cursive because I like it and like calligraphy. I think they should at least be able to read cursive.</p> <p>As far as the spelling goes I have never heard of a school that does not teach spelling and can't imagine that their state or CCSS would allow it. Strange. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1451878 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:55:26 +0000 ElbieKay 1451878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Uhhhh my child will not stay in a school that doesn't teach spelling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1451853 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:47:15 +0000 pui 1451853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunshineandsushi: Like I said above (jokingly) are we going to cut teaching math because we all carry calculators now? </p> <p>Like at least basic math, I think handwriting is still going to be a valuable skill for years to come. As much as we are becoming more and more a digital society, a lot is still done on paper. I don't think we've quite made it obsolete yet. If it does actually become useless one day, I'd have little issue cutting it from school also.</p> <p>The purpose of cursive is mostly to make writing faster/easier, but now that school papers and other formal documents are expected typed up, it's become a less useful skill. Teaching typing is probably much more useful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1451821 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:40:31 +0000 sunshineandsushi 1451821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pui: I agree, and it's not something that occurred to me, just found it interesting when I heard it on the news. They made some other points too, but I can't recall. </p> <p>I think everything starts with something small. With the dominance of computers, tablets and phones, if we start with cutting out cursive, will there eventually be a thought to just stop teaching handwriting in general? You could argue, why not, so much is electronic now and it looks to continue growing that way, not reversing. </p> <p>Just interesting to think about ... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1451799 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:32:58 +0000 pui 1451799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunshineandsushi: How often does the average person actually read historical documents in cursive and not typed out in a book? Lots of historical things are written in Latin which we stopped teaching in elementary school years and years ago.</p> <p>Also, most of cursive is just regular letters strung together. Only really S's and Z's are very different from their printed counterpart. It wouldn't be hard to figure out how to read at all. Certainly easier to learn than Latin. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1451776 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:28:43 +0000 sunshineandsushi 1451776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In response to cursive being cut from schools, I heard this response on the news - think about how many important historical documents are written in cursive. If we stop teaching our children how to read and write in cursive, that will definitely impact learning in other ways. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1451668 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:53:44 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1451668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: These standards were adopted in 2010 so maybe it was just before that. But hopefully J will be learning spelling! </p> <p>Obviously I care about the status of some of this because its my job, but I am already really interested when I hear what parents do/don't know about their child's education. Most of this information is public and I am really concerned about what my daughter will be required to know and be learning. (PS just to be clear, not directed at this thread, just an interest I've had for a while). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-you-teach-your-child-cursive#post-1451666 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:53:27 +0000 mrs. tictactoe 1451666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think cursive is important, aside from learning to sign your name, so that's what I'd focus on. Spelling is still taught in our schools. </p>