MONROE, La. – Gone are the days when second- and third-grade students spent hours mastering the technique needed to create the cursive alphabet and even more time learning to string those letters ...

Looking for writing lessons that will engage your students? Student Writing Lessons from YES! Magazine may be just what you are looking for. The lessons are based on thought-provoking YES! articles ...

Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on The Character Tree’s blog. When we were just a couple weeks into distance learning, I started to really miss writing workshop time. Over ...

Live Lessons are half hour interactive programmes to support teachers and bring curriculum content to life. We work with educational consultants, specialist partners and some of the BBC's biggest ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

A new study has shown the far-reaching implications of handwriting skills in early childhood. In an Australian first, Murdoch University researchers Dr Anabela Malpique, Dr Deborah Pino-Pasternak and ...

In the hands of students, a curved piece of wood becomes a smile, a crown, an oversized ear. The shape’s “meaning” changes with its position or role, a message that also holds true in learning to ...

Among the staff at Topgolf, 11th-grader Augustine Fredericks has a rare and coveted skill. When a customer orders a celebratory dessert, the teenager is often summoned to pipe a fancy “happy birthday” ...

Try first this figure 2, how, from the point of the pen, clockwise it unwinds itself downward to the line, making itself a pedestal to stand on. Watch now. Before your eyes it becomes a swan drifting ...