No cursive in school? This group is teaching students over breakfast

Cursive writing is not required in the state curriculum. FILE PHOTO

Cursive writing is not required in the state curriculum. FILE PHOTO

Members of the Ross Middle School FCCLA developed a Cursive Breakfast Club for fifth-grade students who wanted to improve their cursive writing skills.

With cursive writing no longer required by the state curriculum, members of the FCCLA worked to fill a community need to tutor students in cursive writing.

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Members researched the need to be able to read and write in cursive and practiced cursive writing in a fun and relaxed setting. The eighth-grade FCCLA members meet with students for breakfast before school and do creative cursive projects to work on their skills.

FCCLA members are doing this as part of a Career Development Event called Focus on Children. In this event, participants use Family and Consumer Sciences skills to plan and conduct a child development project that has a positive impact on children and the community.

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