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Knowledge
Students know:
- Legible writing can be read by others.
- Fluent writing is writing at a consistent pace.
- Cursive writing strokes for all letters.
- Cursive writing connects the letters within words.
- Appropriate spacing should occur between words.
- Text elements, like headings, titles, and paragraph indentations, must be located in a certain place on a page.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Write legibly in cursive at a steady pace.
- Connect and correctly form cursive letters.
- Include appropriate spacing between words.
- Place text elements, like headings, titles, and paragraph indentations, in the correct location on a page.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Cursive writing is a special type of writing that connects letters within words.
- Appropriate spacing is important so that readers can tell where one cursive word ends and the next begins.
- There are standard conventions for text elements that should be followed in formal writing.
Vocabulary
- Fluently
- Legibly
- Cursive
- Correctly formed letters
- Appropriate spacing
- Text elements
