Alphabets differ in other respects, too: whether or not their capital A looks like a giant lowercase A, for example. Choose (or invent!) a style you like, and stick with it.

But Martin uses the screen to teach her students a concept older than the one-room school house: how to write in cursive. “Two humps, like a camel,” she says, as she forms a lowercase “n” and then, ...

Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive as part of their weekly library instruction.

ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that.