Some children enjoy spending hours on end writing paragraphs and stories, but others absolutely dread it.‎ They may have great ideas but struggle to express them on paper. Yet as students move through ...

Journaling can help us work through a problem we’re having; it can act as an outlet for stress or frustration; it can help us figure out how we really feel about something and then allow us to ...

Young readers deserve our best work. The Writing for Children and Young Adults concentration is part of The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, founded in 1996. Students study with our ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

“Help! My child is a great reader, but they seem to be struggling with comprehension!” “Any ideas for helping my child become a better writer?” Forums on the internet are filled with desperate pleas ...

Children’s book author Minh Lê was an intensely shy child who loved to read. On family outings to the public library, he and his sisters would check out stacks of books taller than themselves.

Miriam Udel's "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature" shows how stories shaped a Jewish identity ...

The GBH Kids Scriptwriting Fellowship is a program designed to mentor promising, early-career writers from underrepresented communities in writing scripts for a GBH Kids animated series that focuses ...

Louis Sachar, the author of Holes and the Wayside School series, has spent nearly half a century writing books for kids. And he was originally going to continue that streak with his new novel, The ...

Ani Di Franco has won a Grammy (and been nominated for eight others), released 22 albums on her own Righteous Babe Records, sold over five million copies, hit the New York Times bestseller list with ...