RICHLAND -- Julie Dockter said the changes she saw in her preschoolers during the past school year were amazing. Students know their numbers and letters now. And though they appear to spend much of ...

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Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage writing for communication ...

People often assume that not a lot of writing gets done in kindergarten. They think it’s about reading out loud the alphabet, forming simple words, and counting. However, there is what we can call ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

BRANCHBURG -- Kangaroo Kids Child Care and Learning Center believes that education is an important aspect of everyone's life whether it be a preschool learning to write their name or a teacher ...

Teaching handwriting in elementary school is getting huge support from research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Some state legislatures are paying attention and mandating that handwriting be ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We love our kids’ first drawings. They draw before they write, so their drawings seem somehow miraculous in those early ...