Your family is standing inside the rotunda at the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., looking at the original Declaration of the United States. It’s beautiful and awe-inspiring, but can your ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — It was the middle of a writing lesson in Gabrielle Grace’s first grade class at Sand Creek Elementary in suburban Denver, and students were furiously jotting down details ...

Children today are growing up surrounded by technology. So it's easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard. But our research suggests this is not necessarily true. We need ...

Kenneth Koch's book about his first experience teaching children to write poetry, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams, appeared in 1970. Over the years, his account of how he helped the children in P.S. 61 ...

Just as a gardener plants seeds and nurtures them into strong, flourishing plants, early childhood educators have the opportunity to nurture the earliest seeds of literacy in young children. When ...

Jennifer Yang, a mother of two, and founder of Dearist, a book and stationery series for kids with everything needed to write and mail personal handwritten letters, turned her passion for letter ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report HIGHLANDS RANCH — It was the middle of a writing lesson in Gabrielle Grace’s first-grade class at Sand Creek Elementary ...