A nationwide study of more than 500 Australian primary school students in Year 2 has revealed how beginner writers' attitude and motivation toward writing is related to the quality of their writing ...

A nation-wide study of more than 500 Australian primary school students in Year 2 has revealed how beginner writers’ attitude and motivation towards writing is related to the quality of their writing ...

There has been a sharp and sustained decline in the number of children and young people writing for pleasure, a new report has found. Only one in four children aged 8 to 18 say they enjoy writing in ...

At a critical juncture in the future of children’s literacy—when reading for pleasure has dipped nationwide and access to school libraries has been upended by decreased funding—comes a national ...

Just as a gardener plants seeds and nurtures them into strong, flourishing plants, early childhood educators have the opportunity to nurture the earliest seeds of literacy in young children. When ...

Nowadays, it is common for children’s classrooms to have digital resources to be used as tools for certain learning processes. For example, there are computer programs geared towards children who are ...

For teachers and parents, a close look at a child’s writing sample offers key information about his or her literacy development. In this post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham ...

The U.K. children’s writing competition 500 Words is being relaunched this September, supported by BBC Teach with BBC Breakfast hosting the initiative for 2023. 500 Words is a U.K.-wide competition to ...