Upper elementary teachers can channel students’ excitement around the changing season into thoughtful writing that incorporates all five senses.

With frequent modeling, teachers can guide their students to work through the writing process with confidence.

When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

Baldwinsville, NY -- The Baldwinsville Central School District this year has expanded a writing program in the third, fourth and fifth grades. The program, Units of Study for Primary Writing, was ...

Gabrielle Turner wrote the story featured in today’s blog in the summer of 2003 as part of an eight-week, eight-hour-a-day summer of work and training that Students at the Center produced for 30 young ...

There are few things students may dread more than a writing assignment, but it shouldn’t be this way. Just as phonics are the steps to advanced reading, elementary writing is a skill set your child ...

On a late April morning at Woodrow Wilson Elementary on Binghamton’s West Side, the 19 kindergarteners in Michele Rozen’s classroom — bright and brimming with posters of rules and goals and letters ...

In the past few months, the staff at Northside Elementary began encouraging their students to express themselves creatively in the form of a creative writing contest. The contest would not only help ...