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

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

Children know from early on that writing is arranged along a line. WUSTL Photo/Courtesy of Rebecca Treiman, CC BY. Consider a study in which Chinese children were asked to write several words ...

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.

Georgia’s new English language arts standards, which take effect in July, will include an emphasis on handwriting, and ...

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 ...

For some kids, learning how to write numbers can be a real challenge. There are so many to learn! In all kinds of weird shapes! One can see how that would be frustrating.

By the time these children are 5 years old, the poor ones will have heard 30 million fewer words than their wealthy peers But yesterday, I was not thinking in broad language.

Jason Reynolds is an award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. This hour, Jason speaks with Manoush about reaching kids through stories that let them feel understood.