An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson. Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders. To teach a valuable lesson about where the ...

When their first graders struggled with a writing assignment, a group of educators collaborated on a new, more effective plan ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

The Research as Inquiry frame looks to help show that research is a process where you can develop a research question and begin to ask more complex questions as the question is reframed after finding ...

It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible ...

The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.

February 16, 2024 • Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House visits with bestselling writer David Arnold to talk about creating vivid characterizations in the premiere episode of “Writing Lessons”, a ...

Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!) the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource. Largely, we were advised ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...