Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same ...

Similar to previous overseas studies, teachers in our study spent significantly more time teaching paper-based writing than ...

Writing happens in every classroom and for a range of instructional purposes. When writing is used as a mechanism for processing learning, metacognition, self-reflection, and problem-solving, this is ...

Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We love our kids’ first drawings. They draw before they write, so their drawings seem somehow miraculous in those early ...

One of the most important and simplest lessons in preschool and Kindergarten are the ABCs. At an early age, children learn to recognize the letters, then to print them, in both lowercase and uppercase ...

An indifferent student on the southside of Chicago, his only aspiration was to play in a band. It was a geology teacher that spotted his potential, and asked George to express himself in class. Joe ...

Professional educators at times doggedly avoid the obvious. The U.S. Department of Education has tested tens of thousands of children on their writing ability and invariably found that, to quote one ...