Since letters have been invented, people have looked for ways to write them more swiftly. Scribes writing on clay tablets developed a more fluid form of writing that served as an early cursive in Mesopotamia.
The cursive writing we recognize today started developing in Europe the 16 th century. Connecting letters with loops and tails seemed to grow increasingly more uniform across languages as education became more available to the citizens of those nations. Instruction was made more simply by the invention of textbooks printed using a special copper plate. Students could trace the preprinted letters with their quill pens.
The resulting form of writing was simply referred to as copperplate. Copperplate served as both a simple, functional script and as something that could be made to look fancy for special ceremonial papers.
As literacy was far from universal, and the need for legible handwriting was great, copperplate writing was considered something of an art form to be seriously studied.
Reading and writing was no small task in the 17 th , 18 th and 19 th centuries. Penmanship was critical. The many forms of cursive writing in the centuries to follow evolved out of copperplate. By the fifth century A. After the Roman Empire fell, penmanship became a specialized discipline that primarily blossomed in monastic settings, specifically the medieval scriptoria that churned out Christian and classical texts across Europe.
Styles varied widely by region, however, so in the late eighth century Charlemagne tasked an English monk with standardizing the craft. Influenced by Roman characters, Carolingian miniscule was designed for maximum legibility and featured lowercase letters, word separation and punctuation. As the price of parchment and demand for books soared in the later Middle Ages, a denser style of writing evolved for European languages.
Johannes Gutenberg used this Gothic approach for his printing press in the midth century. The Common Core State Standards, adopted by 42 states and the District of Columbia, call for handwriting instruction in kindergarten and first grade only, and teaching in keyboard skills after that.
As Alabama state Rep. That bill was signed into law by Gov. Robert Bentley, undoubtedly in a flourish of cursive, and went into effect in May But it was just one salvo in an old battle that is picking up a new head of steam. Handwriting itself was invented by several civilizations. Writing is how humans record their achievements, artworks, and tell stories for generations to come.
Over centuries, handwriting styles kept evolving as every language started to have its distinctive alphabet. Download Our page Workbook! Begin learning or teaching cursive writing with our free downloadable workbook. Cursive writing, also known as script, is any type of penmanship or handwriting where the letters are connected together. Printing is where the letters are separated by calculated spaces.
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