Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

Looking for writing lessons that will engage your students? Student Writing Lessons from YES! Magazine may be just what you are looking for. The lessons are based on thought-provoking YES! articles ...

In these ten-minute lessons, Australian teachers teach fundamental skills in English. These mini lessons are co-designed with teachers and produced with the support of Australian schools, the NSW ...

The YES! Magazine article, “Living Large in a Tiny House,” by Carol Estes is a story about Dee Williams downsizing from a three-bedroom house for an 84-square-foot bungalow. Students will use Dee’s ...

Here’s a teaching idea from an English teacher in Scotland that may come as a surprise: using spam emails to teach persuasive writing and other lessons to your students. In The Guardian‘s Teacher ...

Great oratory magnifies the lessons of great writing. Written for the ear, memorable speeches tend to use certain rhetorical devices — such as parallelism or emphatic word order — in greater measure ...

The State Board of Education approved Thursday new standards for English classes and reading and writing lessons. The new ...

Cursive writing is making a return to Georgia classrooms this school year, thanks to updated English Language Arts standards from the Georgia Department of Education. Starting this month, students in ...