Learning Without Tears, a leader in early literacy, today announced the development of Get Set for School®: Letters & ...

Exploring the alphabet in a fun, relaxing and natural way. Exploring the alphabet in a fun, relaxing and natural way. Learning to Read is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

Alphabet learning sets the stage for reading success, but it doesn’t have to be boring. Research shows that playful, hands-on activities and meaningful print interactions help letters stick. Blending ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

Humans have been on Earth for around 200,000 years but have only used symbols as a form of communication for a fraction of that time. Because of this, Mariano Sigman, author of "The Secret Life of The ...

Young children are writing even before they are reading. Steven Yeh, CC BY-NC-ND We typically think of writing as something that is out of reach for preschool children. After all, young children can’t ...