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 ...

If you teach English learners, you already know the daily puzzle: a classroom full of students at five or six different ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the “robot” that was churning out ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

In late summer, the educator and writer Mike Rose died of a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Santa Monica; he was seventy-seven. I learned of his death in the pitiless way that one often ...

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 ...

Flint provides inline writing feedback based on teacher-configured rubrics and guardrails. You set the boundaries for what AI can and can’t do, which prevents the tool from writing for students.

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

A clever teacher used a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich to teach a messy lesson about creative writing. “The students were mind-blown,” Kayleigh Sloan, a first and second grade teacher, tells ...

A collection of teaching resources for primary and secondary pupils, perfect for inspiring your class with the joy of reading for World Book Day and National Storytelling Week.

A first grade teacher on TikTok is going viral with a hilariously adorable video showcasing how she teaches her young students about descriptive writing. Oh, and things get messy, too! Kay Sloan, a ...