Explore research on handwriting automaticity and sentence construction, plus strategies to improve writing instruction across grades K–3.

An instructional leader in a Bay Area school district told me last week that while they are a bright spot in improving reading for the last three years, they still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic ...

Research on generative AI in primary writing classrooms remains limited, but early findings suggest both potential and risk.

As artificial intelligence makes its way into more classrooms — and in light of this week’s executive order to increase AI education in K-12 schools — teachers may be looking for ways to embrace the ...

A more intentional focus on writing instruction is reaping big rewards for a Tennessee district. In Sumner County, a district serving about 29,000 students, school leaders in 2019 were looking for a ...

Novice writers may struggle with conventions of academic writing, good habits and processes for developing academic essays, and/or grammar, mechanics and syntax. Through the directed self-placement ...

Harvard in 1900 had only one required course -- freshman composition -- reflecting the faculty’s belief that writing was too important a skill to be left to caprice. After all, back in 1874-- 1874! -- ...

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 ...

Minding the Campus Writing is a fundamentally human act. There may be evolving technologies that can string words together ...

Writing is hard, and writing at length is harder. But there are no studies on whether it's better to teach students to write sentences before asking them to write at length. There isn’t much good ...