Typing engages fewer neural circuits, resulting in more passive cognitive engagement.” This context is helpful, but elementary teachers will also need to know how to teach it. Today’s veteran teachers ...

The instructional coach revamped how young kids pull apart and put together letter sounds to form words. Her program is now being piloted in six Maine school districts.

A South Carolina organization is helping nonverbal children and young adults communicate through keyboard typing and letter-pointing.

Nearly 20,000 children’s handwriting kits have been recalled after pens were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Here’s what to know.

Handwriting vs. keyboarding "We found that children held very positive attitudes toward both writing formats, but only their handwriting attitudes significantly predicted the success of their ...

More than a century ago, Victorian schoolboys playing in London seemingly lost several marbles down a drain. Now, excavations at the site have turned up these lost toys as well as fragments of a ...

Somehow in parallel with 1980s stranger danger and faces on milk cartons, penpal lists were an actual thing. You could submit your name, age, address and sometimes even photo to various magazines and ...

THE WILD LIFE: Local K-12 students are invited to create art and writing for possible publication in the 2026 Mountain Xpress Kids Issues. Deadline is Friday, Feb. 6. Photo by iStock Attention, local ...

I also have, shall we say, a fragmented attention span, and my therapist likes to routinely bring up how many women my age have undiagnosed ADHD, which I now take as a not-so-subtle hint. So I need ...

An intrepid puppy who marches for labor rights. A 6-year-old girl who sews herself a locomotive to carry her away from her daily chores. A Jewish boy who would be Pope. These stories, written in ...

Introduction Visual perception and visual-motor integration skills are key predictors of handwriting. Children with cerebral palsy often experience difficulties in these areas, which can negatively ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. Sure, writing is form of communication but it can be much more than that, ...