Upper elementary teachers can channel students’ excitement around the changing season into thoughtful writing that incorporates all five senses.

Over the years that I have been an English teacher, there has been a steady decline in students’ writing skills. Every time I assign a major piece of writing, one that is multiple pages in length, I ...

Any writer’s fatal flaw can be the need to be liked. It’s liberating to shed that need. Saritha Prabhu is a USA TODAY NETWORK Tennessee columnist. If you’d told me when I immigrated here in 1992 that ...