{"id":1810,"date":"2011-09-30T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2011-09-30T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:28:27","slug":"the-connection-between-handwriting-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/30\/the-connection-between-handwriting-and-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Connection Between Handwriting and Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1811\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/ZanerBloser1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1811\" title=\"ZanerBloser1\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/ZanerBloser1-300x174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/ZanerBloser1-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/ZanerBloser1-620x360.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/ZanerBloser1-220x128.png 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/ZanerBloser1.png 912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Zaner-Bloser Publishing<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s best to do things old school.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a conclusion one could draw from an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/indiana\/2011\/09\/29\/why-schools-should-keep-teaching-handwriting-even-if-typing-is-more-useful\/#more-2224\">Indiana University study<\/a> on the importance of teaching handwriting over keyboard skills, according to a story from our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/indiana\/\">StateImpact Indiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>IU psychology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/psych.indiana.edu\/faculty\/khjames.php\" target=\"_blank\">Karin James<\/a> says research shows letter writing activates portions of the brain critical to reading in children.<\/p>\n<p>Like Indiana, Florida has joined 42 other states adopting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corestandards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">a set of national curriculum guidelines<\/a>\u00a0that emphasize teaching students how to type. Many schools are purchasing electronic tablets, such as the iPad, to replace traditional textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the conclusions? Have schools abandoned traditional skills such as handwriting? What have been the results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s best to do things old school. That&#8217;s a conclusion one could draw from an Indiana University study on the importance of teaching handwriting over keyboard skills, according to a story from our friends at StateImpact Indiana. IU psychology professor Karin James says research shows letter writing activates portions of the brain critical to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1030,1078,1050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}