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I have been teaching third grade for eight years now.The second grade teachers begin teaching the students a few of the lowercase letters in cursive toward the end of the year. In third grade, we review the letters they were taught and teach the rest. However, during the first half of the year I cannot read many of my students' printing. Letters are formed incorrectly or extremely large. It is difficult to get all of their printing straightened out so that I can teach cursive. I cannot even begin to imagine teaching cursive before third grade! Also, they seem to be excited and interested in learning cursive while I have them. This definitely makes it easier to teach.
Posted by: Rebecca C. | October 22, 2008 06:59 PM