In the National Year of Reading, teachers say a culture of enthusiasm, from dress-up days, story time and book clubs, can reverse a national decline ...

As a foster carer since the early 2000s, I’ve witnessed the human cost of Britain’s broken SEND (special educational ...

Across the UK, classrooms are stocking nappies alongside pencils, as teachers report a shocking rise in young children arriving unprepared for school. What’s really happening ...

Teaching methods have changed over recent years, particularly in the areas of reading and writing. The pendulum is swinging back, though, so phonics and cursive writing are turning up in lesson plans.

An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.

Thousands of children as young as four have been suspended for attacking teachers as shocking statistics reveal record violence in classrooms. Soaring numbers of reception-age children – the youngest ...

Thousands of Peterborough children have been photographed by The Peterborough Telegraph as they started school for the first time in September. Photographer David Lowndes will visited almost every ...

As Kent and Medway's new reception pupils get to grips with life in school, we are preparing to mark the moment with special keepsake supplements. The first school term of the new school year is well ...

News about Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th US president, including comment and features from the Guardian Trump news at a glance: Trump says war is won but ‘we don’t want to leave early’ as oil prices ...

Most stories have a beginning, middle and end. In the beginning, establish your setting and characters. In the middle, you could add conflict and a problem to solve. At the end there could be a ...

Questions are sentences that ask something. We use a question mark ? at the end of a sentence to show that we're asking a question. Questions are sentences which ask something. They end with a ...