Some children enjoy spending hours on end writing paragraphs and stories, but others absolutely dread it.‎ They may have great ideas but struggle to express them on paper. Yet as students move through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prostock-studio via Shutterstock You'll never be bored if you can write a great story, and every great story starts somewhere.

I’ve long believed that if we want students to improve as writers, it makes sense to make writing as fun as possible. Ask students how often they experience school-related writing as fun and expect a ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

We’re checking in with Katie Volk, an ELA teacher over at Rockford Christian! Katie has been a teacher for 34 years and she ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - When children text, their thumbs fly. But when it comes to holding a pencil and learning how to write small, tall and descending letters, many youngsters are all thumbs. Usually, ...

A deck of 50 oversize cards stored in a book-shaped cardboard container, Once Upon a Time: Creative Writing Fun for Kids by Annie Buckley and Kathleen Coyle, illus. by Cathy Law, brims with ...

It seems like the kind of paradoxical position a comedian might find herself in when she starts writing for an animated children’s program. But as Jaffe soon discovered, the process of working on both ...

As a writer, I am aware of the long and pervasive discourse about the difficulty of writing. Writing is arduous and enervating, frequently frustrating, wrought with failure, and also, I believe, a fun ...