“What does a cursive Q look like?” I asked my wife after dinner one recent night. We were helping our 5-year-old daughter form uppercase letters in manuscript when it occurred to me that I did not ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...

There are 26 letters in the alphabet. Letters can be written in lower case or upper case. Upper‑case letters are also called capital letters. A B C D E F G H I J K ...

Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a pen or a ...

Change is the only constant — or ‘the vibes are always shifting’ as Gen Z would put it — where language is concerned. Since early humans first learnt to communicate using sounds and then gave those ...