The Effect of Early Handwriting Instruction

Abstract

Much has been said in recent years both for and against the revival of manuscript handwriting as a form of writing to be taught in the school. From a questionnaire sent in the autumn of 1933 to the larger school systems in the country, the writer learned that there has lately been a tendency for many of the leading school systems to adopt manuscript handwriting for the primary grades only and to change the method of instruction to cursive writing at the beginning of the intermediate grades.