All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.

A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The cursive requirements are part of ...

On a mission to help young students improve their reading skills and excite them to be better writers, award-winning author Mark Weakland drew dozens of Blue Mountain elementary students and their ...

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 ...

But in Latonya Bennett’s classroom at Scott Elementary, that blank page becomes something else entirely: a place where ...

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 ...