Looking for writing lessons that will engage your students? Student Writing Lessons from YES! Magazine may be just what you are looking for. The lessons are based on thought-provoking YES! articles ...

The YES! Magazine article, “Growing Up in a Kenyan Slum Taught Me the Real Value of Stuff,” by Simon Okelo, is a story about learning to live with less in the midst of abundance. Students will use ...

Having interviewed more than 30 bestselling authors over the past year on my podcast, I’ve learned a lot about how they overcome distractions and mental blocks and get down to work each day. I like to ...

When I think about the best writing I have ever read, one of the essays I go back to time and time again is "The Falling Man, ...

When I wrote my first article for Seeking Alpha, an article about DreamWorks Animation that was published in August 2014, I had no idea that, just over 10 years later, I would hit the milestone of ...

Students will demonstrate the ability to use details and information present in the artwork to create a list, and then write a clear descriptive expository text that clearly describes the artwork.

A client wants to work for a top magazine and showed me a draft of his cover letter. I offered the following suggestions, which could be of value to anyone, whether writing an important email, a ...

As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...

A whopping 97 percent of respondents in a recent survey say they ‘frequently’ or ‘sometimes’ use ChatGPT to write lesson plans. Likewise, 93 percent of teachers say they use the AI platform to grade ...