Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same ...

Writing is one of the best ways to communicate with other people. We write everywhere and every time. We compose different emails, essays, and statements daily. Good writing is a lifelong craft one ...

Long before children enter a formal education setting, they are developing the skills that lay the foundation for learning to write. From fine motor skills to the complexities of vocabulary and ...

Researchers in Switzerland have designed a system where children teach robot students how to write, and in the process improve their own handwriting skills. This learning by teaching paradigm, they ...

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?

Learning to write is one of the defining milestones of early childhood, but it doesn’t happen all at once. Children build writing skills over time, from indecipherable scribbles to writing letters and ...

University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Teachers have fewer opportunities to ...

Debora Valcan, Deborah Pino Pasternak, and Susan Ledger do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have ...

It’s a milestone that leaves parents beaming with pride: the first time their child shakily writes out their own name. And it’s the start of many more key childhood moments, from Christmas lists to ...

How is it that in the 21st century, despite unprecedented advances in technology, globalisation and education reforms, nine ...

“You’ve got mail” is an understatement for me during the months of December and January. Each year, the post office delivers white plastic mail bins by the dozens filled with correspondence from ...