A student pen pal program is connecting generations, with third graders and local seniors exchanging letters for months ...

For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face.

Third-graders would focus on writing complete words ... in credit cards were more effective in preventing fraud than in pen-and-paper signatures that can be forged. “I don’t think children ...

students sat down to meet their new friends one-on-one. “(I wrote about) the things that I like, like my family, writing,” first grader Lizzy Hopkins said. On the other side of the pen pals ...

about how she started reading and writing. In 2019, lawmakers approved the Alabama Literacy Act requiring third graders to meet reading benchmarks before moving to the fourth grade. On Friday ...