There's a contentious debate among techy teachers who are ready to discard handwriting / cursive and traditional teachers who see the value for reading, writing and fine motor skills that teaching handwriting provides.
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This is a surprisingly heated debate. The only reason I cling to for learning to write in cursive is the discipline aspect of it--training your body to do what your mind wants on such a small scale. Seeing a child struggle for hours on homework that has to be in cursive, however, quickly makes me lose my resolve in that argument.
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My cursive is horrible-probably from lack of using it. Automatically print now. Still need cursive for John Hancock's, no?
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Diagramming Sentences
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How many of you had to do this? I actually didn't do this until I got to high school (Catholic, of course). My elementary schools focused almost entirely on process writing.
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Mrs. Inzano's English 3A and 4A. She loved diagramming sentences. I think I've mentally blocked the whole thing because it was so very traumatic. She was a wonderful teacher but a bit of a Nazi when it came to diagramming.(and I will not tell you what decade that was!)
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