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Page 1 — Embellishment against cultural decay

Page 2 — who writes by hand, learns better

Page 3 — Adjust method to child

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Only two guidelines have to be met by teachers everywhere in Germany when y teach children to write: First, students practice printing letters and at end of fourth grade y should have found an individual handwriting that y write fluently and legibly. Can. Thus, it stands in educational standards for primary school, which have been valid nationwide since 2004. How children come to ir own handwriting is a matter of country or sometimes even a teacher – and re is a fierce quarrel about it.

The Latin starting script was introduced in 1953 in Germany. © Public Domain

In Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Saxony, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein all children have to learn a connected script according to printed text. That is, you are practicing one of three common fonts with loops and checkmarks, in which all letters in a word are connected. In Bavaria, teachers choose between a simplified starting letter and a school starting point in second half of first class.

The school's original typeface was introduced in GDR in 1968. It is also used in many Western states. (copyright) Renate Tost

In most or federal states, script starts in second class, often only when print letters are really dominated. In Baden-Württemberg, students learn Latin starting script or simplified source text. Students from Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, for example, usually write school starting script, which was developed in GDR. Often, however, schools have complete freedom to choose between three.

Momentum in print letters

In addition to this confusion of three source texts, so-called basic script is still permitted. In Hamburg, for example, it was already introduced 2011 as an alternative to school. In Bremen, since 2016 49 of 75 elementary schools have chosen basic script. It is also partially taught in Thuringia, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate or Saarland.

This means that students do not have to learn any of three bound scriptures. Instead, y bring momentum into print letters and practice making connections between m. Not all letters must flow into each or, as in original writings, air jumps are allowed. With some sequences of letters, this is a lively one, such as El or CH, but each child decides in end which turns and connections it uses. The basic script is an orientation aid to develop your own handwriting, not a standardized typeface. And here begins excitement.

A basic font is made up of print letters. © Hamburg School Authority

The critics, such as former teacher and writing coach Ute Andresen or children's author Cornelia Funke, are predicting loss of a cultural technique or even of identity, damage to thinking and memory, as a result of a deeper Awareness process. "In letter, our personality expresses itself," she says. Also chairman of Philologenverbands Heinz-Peter Meidinger says: To learn a bound handwriting is an elementary individual learning process for each child. It conveys flow of thought.

Some teachers call basic script Stotterschrift. Print letters cannot be written in a liquid form, y argue that students are refore too slow and strenuous. And your ideas would be forgotten on way.

Date Of Update: 27 November 2017, 12:03