A few weeks back, I wrote about how families can build skilled readers at home and the best books, games, and activities to help do just that. Another big part of learning to read, as I often explain ...

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 ...

"Please write in a more relaxed way." "Make it a little softer, with your own gentle, personal tone."I received this feedback ...

We learn much better if we take notes the old-fashioned way, by hand, and now researchers know more about why this is. “When we measure the brain activity of people who write by hand, we see that they ...

Writing Across the Curriculum programs have demonstrated that students can gain a deeper understanding of subject-area content by writing about it. This insight is often dubbed “Writing-to-Learn” (WTL ...

Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

Armed with the knowledge that children tend to learn better when they teach their new-found skills to others, Swiss researchers have enlisted the help of a humanoid robot that improves along with them ...

There is plenty of scientific evidence indicating that writing by hand is an important skill. Compared to typing, writing by hand seems to activate the brain in ways that help you process and remember ...

Stephen King purportedly wrote Dreamcatcher in longhand — using a Waterman cartridge pen. J. K. Rowling penned The Tales of Beedle the Bard — all 157 pages of it — in longhand, and the leather-bound ...