I went to school in 1990 in Poland. We were taught to write in cursive FIRST. Like: "This is the letter "m", that's how it looks like, write it here in this li

I went to school in 1990 in Poland. We were taught to write in cursive FIRST. Like: "This is the letter "m", that's how it looks like, write it here in this line 1000 times in this pattern". Something like this: http://bystredziecko.pl/karty-pracy/nauka-pisania/5/szlaczki-nauka-pisania-m.pdf http://bystredziecko.pl/karty-pracy/nauka-pisania/5/szlaczki... I already could read books by then, but most kids didn't, so they learnt cursive first. BTW cursive isn't any less or more readable than printed letters by itself. It depends on how fast you write. Printed letters force you to go slower, so by default you write them clearer. But if you go slow with cursive it will be as clear as printed letters.