Reading is a solitary activity, not a lonely one. I was a shy kid who loved books in part because they felt like a form of ...

A. Ali Ural’s 'Introduction to Writing' presents writing as more than technique, framing it as an ethical and creative act ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

Teachers are focusing on writing instruction like never before. More and more, they’re asking students to write about what they read, helping them think through and craft their work, and using such ...

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 ...

Back in 2005 in California, I was reading Edward Said's Power, Politics, and Culture. This book is a collection of twenty-eight interviews conducted over three decades, in which Said fielded various ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? It isn’t easy for educators to teach reading, and it isn’t easy for students to learn the skill, either. But, in ...

I love to write — and I have over 10 years’ worth of journals at home to prove it. Writing is my therapy, my outlet, my default. But there’s always been a little something that’s gotten in the way of ...