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 ...

As more teachers are using both the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards, they will increasingly be confronted with a challenge: The standards in literacy and ...

Kudos to Education Week for rolling out a collection of articles on elementary writing instruction, a vital area of literacy development that fails to get the attention it deserves. As EdWeek’s ...

Each day, each student at Okatie Elementary School writes for an hour. Beth Fries' second-grade students would write for two if they could, she said. And the hour-long exercise is only one way the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...