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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

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Re: Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

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I don't get your point of not writing cursive. It is literally the same as what you are already doing, but just stopping raising the hand between letters. It is also not like you have that specific cursive, and then it is unreadable. It is a continuous tradeoff of faster vs. readable, so you can just slow down for some letters and not for others. The thing that needs effort is learning to write, why did you waste tim…

> why did you waste time on learning to not connect your letters? As someone who learned cursive by learning a new script first, you're making a big assumption here. Nobody learns to not connect their letters. I didn't learn to not connect my letters. I learned to write without connecting letters, and never properly learned to connect them (until much later in life), because that was never required (and never emphasi…

> If I were to write as I did before, but attempt to connect the letters, it would turn into an unreadable mess.

Oh, okay. They did not tell you in which order and direction you should write letters in print? They focused on that here, but maybe that was actually part for the preparation of learning cursive.

Re: Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

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This is not the case in the US (anymore) and atleast some places in Europe. Print gets taught first and you learn to write with that, then cursive comes later, by this point usually as an afterthought.

> Print gets taught first and you learn to write with that, then cursive comes later That was also the case for me, but the time between that is some weeks to a few months, and you train writing (perfect) spirals in that time.

I didn't start to learn cursive until fourth grade, and then we did that only for a few weeks or months, and then it never showed up again.

Re: Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

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> why did you waste time on learning to not connect your letters? As someone who learned cursive by learning a new script first, you're making a big assumption here. Nobody learns to not connect their letters. I didn't learn to not connect my letters. I learned to write without connecting letters, and never properly learned to connect them (until much later in life), because that was never required (and never emphasi…

> If I were to write as I did before, but attempt to connect the letters, it would turn into an unreadable mess. Oh, okay. They did not tell you in which order and direction you should write letters in print? They focused on that here, but maybe that was actually part for the preparation of learning cursive.

> They did not tell you in which order and direction you should write letters in print?

Not that I can remember, although I can't really anwser that with confidence.

Re: Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

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Two book series that hit the nail for us are the series of Enid Blyton, like Famous Five, (we read to them at age 8-9) and Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid (they read by themselves). Especially the later is a masterpiece for (pre)puberty age. Days upon days of intellectual and emotional satisfaction.
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