Whereas her gentle, looping hand spoke to her sensitive and friendly nature, my heavy-handed block print ... like lowercase Zs to the quite mature-looking double-squiggle of the cursive version.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard ... followed instructions from Durelli to write the lowercase letters. They traced a word already printed ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...