First Grade Teachers Views About Teaching Writing Style

The cursive handwriting, which started teaching in the 2005-2006 academic year, has left its place to the script handwriting with the academic year of 2017-2018. It was seen that the cursive handwriting was criticized in many respects during the time it was used. Factors such as unreadable writings of students, not continue use of cursive handwriting after primary school, low number of written text in this style in current life have been criticized aspects of cursive handwriting. In this study, it’s aimed to compare the views of first grade classroom teachers who have taught cursive handwriting in first grade and teaching script handwriting in the 2017 – 2018 academic year, about two writing style. For this purpose, interviews were conducted with classroom teachers in Alaçam district of Samsun province. The sample of the study consisted of all first grade teachers who had also done cursive handwriting instruction. The case study which is a qualitative research method was used in the research. The research data were collected by a semi-structured interview form which was developed by the researchers. Descriptive analysis was performed on the obtained data. As a result of the research, teachers stated that it is not appropriate to teach cursive handwriting in the first grade. Teachers satisfy positively the instruction of script handwriting. However, there are some problems related to the spelling and the groups of the letters. In the teaching of cursivehandwriting, they stated that they encountered problems in terms of readiness, use of writing in secondary school and exposure to writing.