Encourage kids to write in cursive

Cursive writing is a part of the Montessori curriculum and an essential skill that aims at teaching the same to young learners right from the tender age of four or so. Maria Montessori’s extensive observations of the child revealed the importance of learning with the help of movements and senses. Studies reveal that the essential hand and brain coordination proves that the brain develops when the children use their hands and mind together to explore. Researches have also proved that kids who learn cursive over simple writing score better in reading and spelling tests. Perhaps because of the writing pattern of the cursive the writers are forced to conceive words as whole instead of parts. Cursive plays an important role in a Montessori environment and needs to be continued despite the world being technologically advanced.