Exactly this. My youngest (now 12) was taught letters in exactly this shape. It’s called “pre-cursive”, and is intended to ease the transition into writing joined up.
I wish. Cursive is an absolute antipattern that only makes handwriting more difficult to read. There is a massive drop in legibility once children start to write joined up when compared to the year before.
I realise that it was a solution to the problems that old dip ink pens posed, but now everyone uses biros there’s really no need.
I realise things move slowly (I’m in my forties and had to use fountain pens for schoolwork, ballpoints were banned), but cursive is truly a relic of a bygone age, kept alive only by government mandate.
EDIT: I’ve just checked to see if it was still the case and it turns out that this year the UK government has released a revised Writing Framework. There is no longer a requirement for teaching cursive in primary school, and it actively advises teaching using pre-cursive letter forms.
Exactly this. My youngest (now 12) was taught letters in exactly this shape. It’s called “pre-cursive”, and is intended to ease the transition into writing joined up.
I thought they stopped teaching cursive years ago
I wish. Cursive is an absolute antipattern that only makes handwriting more difficult to read. There is a massive drop in legibility once children start to write joined up when compared to the year before.
I realise that it was a solution to the problems that old dip ink pens posed, but now everyone uses biros there’s really no need.
I realise things move slowly (I’m in my forties and had to use fountain pens for schoolwork, ballpoints were banned), but cursive is truly a relic of a bygone age, kept alive only by government mandate.
EDIT: I’ve just checked to see if it was still the case and it turns out that this year the UK government has released a revised Writing Framework. There is no longer a requirement for teaching cursive in primary school, and it actively advises teaching using pre-cursive letter forms.
Since their nephew is now 12, they were taught that years ago.
Did you know that 15 years ago is also considered “years ago”?