Long before children enter a formal education setting, they are developing the skills that lay the foundation for learning to write. From fine motor skills to the complexities of vocabulary and ...

Learning to write is one of the defining milestones of early childhood, but it doesn’t happen all at once. Children build writing skills over time, from indecipherable scribbles to writing letters and ...

In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...

Researchers in Switzerland have designed a system where children teach robot students how to write, and in the process improve their own handwriting skills. This learning by teaching paradigm, they ...

Deborah Pino Pasternak receives funding from The Ian Potter Foundation, and the ACT Education Directorate via the Affiliated Schools Funded Research Projects. Susan Ledger received funding from Ian ...

Debora Valcan, Deborah Pino Pasternak, and Susan Ledger do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have ...

It’s a milestone that leaves parents beaming with pride: the first time their child shakily writes out their own name. And it’s the start of many more key childhood moments, from Christmas lists to ...

In the Star Trek universe, the audience occasionally gets a glimpse inside schools on the planet Vulcan. Young children stand ...

Chandler acknowledges that little or non-existent spelling instruction puts children with an existing or emerging learning ...

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