Actually, young children who have worked with materials to
strengthen the hand, adjust pincer grasp, and learn the
formation of the letters through sensorial means actually do
become developmentally ready for cursive rather than print.

I'm not familiar with "senior kindergarten." For it to work,
these children would have needed to be in a Montessori
environment tracing cursive sandpaper letters from age three.

Best options for teaching the letters is to group them by
beginning stroke and introduce the simplest of the group first,
only one at a time, adding more as the first is mastered and
flow seems good. Keep letters isolated until the child has
quite a few letters under his belt and then begin to show how
to connect them. Using blank paper allows the child to focus on
formation rather than fitting the letters between lines as a
first step.

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