OAKVILLE, Mo. – First grade students at Rogers Elementary School have been focusing their lessons on writing skills, increasing their vocabulary, and strengthening their grammar over several months ...

Letter writing has become a bit of a lost art — with the rise in popularity of text messages and email. Fairview/Miss Jewell Elementary students in teacher Miriam Marczewski’s first-grade class are ...

Working towards punctuation perfection is a goal of grammar boot camp for these smiling Searingtown students. As part of their commitment to promote writing excellence, the first grade teachers at ...

Key points All first graders should show development in two critical phases, Phases 3 and Phase 4, leading to automatic word reading and spelling. In Phases 3 and 4 writing samples, you see evidence ...

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...