A clever teacher used a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich to teach a messy lesson about creative writing. “The students were mind-blown,” Kayleigh Sloan, a first and second grade teacher, tells ...

The earliest piece of writing I can remember producing was a story, written in phonetic spelling on small pieces of scrap paper stapled together. Mimicking as best I could a “real” picture book, I ...

Some fiction and memoir programs are a waste of classroom time. Others sharpen students' thinking and provide them with unmatched insight. Good teachers know the difference. "I'm not sure if ...