The kids in my youngest son's kindergarten class are working hard on their writing skills. The teacher has been talking a lot about end...

It can be a real struggle to remember what to capitalize when you're eight years old. And since grammar doesn't stick like math...

Say that three times fast. The apostrophe is SUCH a hard working piece of punctuation. To review how it's used in contractions ...

What is it about stamps? I've known for years that the most mundane learning activities seem less of a chore when there's an in...

My son got off the bus last week with a long face. He'd failed the pre-test and came home with the easy list of spelling words. I wa...

My son has been known to forget end punctuation. Hence, the run-on sentence occurs. To give him a little grammar lesson on why run-ons a...

It's not exactly a secret; the English language is confusing. If I'm saying this after spending the last 12 years writing profes...

This mama is a word nerd ... and proud of it. These activities were created to help develop my son's reading and writing skills. Who...

My son’s first-grade teacher is working hard to help the students, my son included, understand the writing process and the importance of...