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Cursive handwriting is a new experience that many students are excited about. for most students, they have seen cursive handwriting before from teachers or parents and are very excited about the opportunity to learn cursive handwriting. below, you’ll find cursive writing tips to help harness that excitement in order to help students excel at learning…

If you’ve ever taken a close look at cursive letters, you might recognize common starting pencil strokes that connect letters together into groups.  We discussed this in a previous post here on The OT Toolbox on cursive letter families.  Today, we’re playing a fun cursive writing game that recognizes the common beginning starting points and…

Today, we’re taking a break from the mechanics of cursive writing to share a quick and fun way to practice cursive letters, pre-cursive lines, or cursive connections.  Use this cursive handwriting activity to help kids work on individual letters or the areas of cursive that need a little more practice in a beautiful and process…

In current classrooms, it can be difficult to find time for cursive instruction. There has been more and more debates about the need to teach cursive. Other schools combine cursive instruction with morning work or with classes such as cursive such as spelling.  The tips below can be helpful in teaching cursive in the classroom…

When students are learning cursive, it’s common for slow formation to occur. Here are ways to help students write with increased speed in cursive writing and tips to help improve functional cursive. This is part of our 31 day series on how to teach cursive writing. Writing in cursive is complex! Students need to really…

If you’ve been following our series on how to teach cursive, then you now have a lot of cursive writing techniques and tips under your toolbelt. Today, you’ll find creative cursive practice ideas here on The OT Toolbox. These are fun ways to practice cursive writing so that handwriting time is fun and not boring!…

Pencil grasp…it’s a quandary for many children! When it comes to cursive handwriting, pencil grasp can be an antagonist that interferes with legibility, rhythm, flow, speed, and formation of cursive letters. Read on for more information on promoting a functional grasp for use in cursive writing.   When we write with a pencil in cursive…

Teaching kids to write in cursive can be difficult. When kids see a lot of different letters once, it can be hard for them to pick out individual letters as they read. For kids who are just learning letters, cursive writing looks like a stream of loops and bumps. This is especially true when students…

A unique feature of cursive writing is the slant of letters. Typically cursive writing slant towards the right.  This cursive handwriting post is part of our 31 day series on cursive handwriting.  While slant of cursive writing may not be a huge deal when it comes to overall legibility, the biggest area to address and…