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Research on generative AI in primary writing classrooms remains limited, but early findings suggest both potential and risk.

Writing is more than a skill, and we risk further declines in literacy if we don't teach it. Artificial intelligence has spawned a new creation, ChatGPT, that can produce well written essays in the ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

Just as most students don’t automatically learn to read, they don’t automatically learn to write. The skill has to be taught. Research has shown that explicitly teaching students the processes of the ...

Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing. This is a huge change for schools when it comes to teaching writing. For students, learning ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

Teaching students how to write disciplinarily is a difficult task, especially when that way of writing includes writing together in teams. Team writing is a challenge many faculty across campus have ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...