In this video I walk you through how I use a bump up wall to grow kindergarten and first grade writers. I show the rubric, the zero to five writing samples, and how I coach students to “bump up” their ...

A first grade teacher on TikTok is going viral with a hilariously adorable video showcasing how she teaches her young students about descriptive writing. Oh, and things get messy, too! Kay Sloan, a ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

A South African teacher shared why Grade 1 was the hardest grade to teach, sparking conversations about early literacy, ...

Corrected: A word was misspelled in the title of the book co-authored by Magliozzi and Peterson. The correct title is AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance. Since ChatGPT’s release, we ...

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...