Some children enjoy spending hours on end writing paragraphs and stories, but others absolutely dread it.‎ They may have great ideas but struggle to express them on paper. Yet as students move ...

The first few sessions, they wrote barely a paragraph, by the end of the year they were writing a page or more with passion. All the kids had created fully-realized characters, and had found ...

Antipathy to the five-paragraph essay ultimately comes down to our encounters with students who have become imprisoned by the method and have lost the ability to write and think creatively (or ...