I want all of my materials to be kid friendly and engaging to help pull students into lessons. Teachers who work with me sometimes roll their eyes when I insist on adding graphics to reproducibles, letters home and quizzes, but many students are overwhelmed if all they see are words on a page. We need…
Writing
A Cursive Crisis
My cursive writing is not pretty. In fact, it’s sort of a printing/cursive mishmash that gets a lot of raised eyebrows. (We editors handwrite notes to the artists here at The Mailbox, and I regularly get called to translate what I wrote.) Many times, I’ve thought that learning cursive, particularly in this day and age,…