Cursive is making a comeback in Ontario schools.
TORONTO - Cursive is making a comeback.
“The research has been very clear that cursive writing is a critical life skill in helping young people to express more substantively, to think more critically, and ultimately, to express more authentically,” he said in an interview. “If we want to boost reading instruction, we have to embrace some of those time-tested strategies that have worked for generations,” Lecce said.
“I think it is long overdue,” said Shelley Stagg Peterson, a curriculum, teaching and learning professor at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.There isn't a lot of research specifically on cursive writing, Peterson said, but the work that has been done shows that it not only teaches students the skill of writing that script in and of itself, but it helps to reinforce overall literacy.
But, she said, a key to success is ensuring there are enough supports so educators can be able to teach cursive properly.“Teachers have to understand why it's been introduced and that it's important and why it's important and really buy in, and then they need the support and the resources to do the job.”
“The province's expectation that educators will be ready to teach the overhauled language curriculum beginning this September is absurd,” ETFO president Karen Brown wrote in a statement.
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