Kindergarten is too important to leave any ... phonics skills while engaging in hands-on play. Instead of writing letters with a pencil, they trace them in sand, shaving cream, or rice trays ...

With increased demands on Transitional Kindergarten (TK) students to enter school with the skills typically expected of ...

With their heads bowed, the students carefully followed instructions from Durelli to write the lowercase letters. They traced a word already printed in the workbook and then tried writing it ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

The measure would make cursive writing mandatory in elementary schools during the next academic year, citing brain ...