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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

Have students provide a written piece of work in cursive. Evaluate the cursive letters and words for legibility.
 

Further Explanation

This assessment requires students to possess the fine motor skills and knowledge of how to connect letters necessary to write legibly in cursive. 

Students should be able to consistently apply their understanding of cursive handwriting components such as how the letters are joined by connectors, how the letters and words are spaced, and how the letter size effects the visual interpretation of a letter (i.e., the letters i, e, and l can look very similar if formed to the same height.) Once students are proficient in cursive, which can be produced much faster than print, it will be necessary that students are mindful of these components so they do not produce writing that cannot be deciphered by a reader.
writing or print that can be read or deciphered easily