This online resources helps middle school students improve their literacy. The site provides games and 120 hours of supplemental resources. Teachers can access free digital lesson library online to ...

Looking for writing lessons that will engage your students? Student Writing Lessons from YES! Magazine may be just what you are looking for. The lessons are based on thought-provoking YES! articles ...

When I think about the best writing I have ever read, one of the essays I go back to time and time again is "The Falling Man, ...

Having interviewed more than 30 bestselling authors over the past year on my podcast, I’ve learned a lot about how they overcome distractions and mental blocks and get down to work each day. I like to ...

On May 31st panic set in. I had agreed to commit to writing every day in the month of June as part of a faculty writing group experiment. Inspired both by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), ...

Lisa Collum is the founder and CEO of Top Score Writing, a curriculum that teaches writing skills. When she was a teacher, she created it for her own students — then she turned it into a business. She ...

Hold a short discussion about whether or not they liked the article read for homework so they have an opportunity to air their opinions. Ask each student to sum up their initial "gut" reactions to the ...

To help students improve their writing style by teaching them how to say more using less words in a fun writing exercise Students will have completed and received back a graded "Interview and Analysis ...

Is there anyone in your life—you included—who is not comfortable being referred to as “he” or “she”? Write a letter to Cole, founder of the Brown Boi Project, on how you feel about this expansion of ...