There's good news to report from our school playgrounds. Our tech-obsessed, media-overloaded children still like to skip rope, hand-clap to rhymes and engage in other traditional school yard games, a ...

It used to be that stories weren’t written down, they were told and passed down orally. Thanks to the invention of written language and Gutenberg’s printing press, today’s stories and poems are mostly ...

Every day at recess, Azhnay Williams practices her cartwheels. But the fourth-grader at Lancaster's Wharton Elementary School isn't turning head-over-heels in an ordinary way. She's flipping through a ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...