Building strong reading and writing skills at a young age can help set your child up for academic success later in life. Kids can have loads of fun developing these key skills with games, interactive ...

Children spend a lot of time in school, but the support they get at home is what helps their literacy skills grow. As a parent or caregiver, you’re a key part of that team. Feeling unsure about how to ...

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 ...

The key is making it easy and lowering your standards dramatically.

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...

All stories are about transformation, even the ones that aren’t. The passage of time inevitably brings about transformations big and small, obvious and invisible. As a writer, I seek out change in my ...

This is the kind of writing expected from all first graders in the first half of first grade—if not sooner. If your child is in Phase 3, s/he is likely using short-term memory to laboriously stretch ...