This school year, kindergarteners learned how to turn on and off their web cameras and mute buttons alongside spelling and reading fundamentals. Separated by distance and screens, kindergarten ...

There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

Just as most students don’t automatically learn to read, they don’t automatically learn to write. The skill has to be taught. Research has shown that explicitly teaching students the processes of the ...

Canadian media have reported on concerns that due to pandemic school closures students are falling behind in learning, and specifically in reading. Research from Alberta examined reading test scores ...

A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

“We show that when writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns are far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard,” writes Audrey van der Meer, a brain researcher at the Norwegian University ...

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 ...

On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...