Craft and StructureEasyTwo views on handwriting instruction
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Students type nearly everything they write. Class time once spent on cursive loops is better spent on keyboard skills they will use daily.
Text 2
A student who cannot read cursive is locked out of original letters, diaries, and records — the raw materials of history. That alone justifies a few weeks of instruction.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 1 thinks schools can drop cursive, while Text 2 gives a reason to keep teaching it.Correct
- B. Both texts agree cursive should be required in every grade.
- C. Text 2 says keyboards are more important than Text 1 admits.
- D. Both texts are about how to teach spelling.
Answer: A. Text 1 thinks schools can drop cursive, while Text 2 gives a reason to keep teaching it.
Text 1 calls cursive outdated; Text 2 counters with a benefit — reading historical documents — that argues for keeping it.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Both texts agree cursive should be required in every grade.
- Text 1 explicitly says class time is better spent elsewhere.
- C. Text 2 says keyboards are more important than Text 1 admits.
- It is Text 1, not Text 2, that emphasizes keyboards.
- D. Both texts are about how to teach spelling.
- Spelling is never discussed in either text.
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