The US and some countries have dropped cursive writing. Arguments hold that classroom time can be better spent on contemporary skills. But has ‘baby gone with the bath water.’ Studies suggest so. Children aged three to five writing letters by hand had better recall of the letters then those who printed or saw letters in print. A 2012 study put five-year-old children, who had yet to learn to read and write, through writing, typing, or tracing exercises. Later, when shown images of the same letters an MRI machine scanned their brains. In the children who wrote - but not those who typed - an area of the brain used in reading activated. Researchers concluded that it's possible the physical act of writing might aid reading. Evidence suggests that writing by hand enhances memorisation skills long beyond early childhood development. Students taking long-form notes on pen and paper tended to process the information on a deeper level.
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