Digital tools are becoming a standard in early childhood classrooms. Many schools now rely on tablets, laptops, and typing ...

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 ...

Since 500 Words began, it has inspired over a million children across the UK to write their own short-stories. This year we want to hear from even more children, no matter what their ability.

Today, the UK’s most successful writing competition for children, 500 Words, launched on BBC Breakfast, live from a primary school in Abergavenny.

She notes that children who have learned to read and write by tapping on a digital tablet “often have difficulty distinguishing letters that look a lot like each other or that are mirror images ...

The children's writing competition 500 Words is to be relaunched by BBC One's Breakfast programme, three years after it was dropped from Radio 2. First launched by Chris Evans on Radio 2's own ...

In speech and writing, they may not actively use more than a limited subset of the words, but they understand them. A simple calculation reveals that they have learned an average of 9-10 words per ...