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In the United States, cursive handwriting instruction is provided to elementary school children in some schools, with cursive taught alongside standard handwriting.
Origins. The earliest example of systematic writing is the Sumerian pictographic system found on clay tablets, which eventually developed around 3200 BC into a modified version called cuneiform which was impressed on wet clay with a sharpened reed.
Spencerian became the dominant handwriting method in America from the 1860s into the early 1900s. It seemed to fit everything that Americans strived for.
In the eighth century, monks created the Carolingian script the earliest form of standardized cursive that others built upon. This script evolved during medieval times, and its twists and curls became harder to read before the Renaissance revived the Carolingian way.
Scholars agree Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) is the earliest origin of handwriting dating back to 5,500 years. The first ever form of handwriting, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations in clay tablets.
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Handwriting strengthens our memory Before the existence of computers, the writing process was the most common way to keep our memory in shape. The extensive use of computers and other smart devices do not allow us to use the full power of our consciousness to refresh and write things down.
Borrowing aspects of the Etruscan alphabet, the ancient Romans were among the first to develop a written script for transactions and correspondence. By the fifth century A.D. it included early versions of lowercase letters and sometimes flowed like modern cursive.
Platt Rogers Spencer is known as the Father of American Penmanship. His writing system was first published in 1848, in his book Spencer and Rices System of Business and Ladies Penmanship.

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