Want to help your sixth-grader master reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your sixth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Cite evidence to explain what a story, play, poem, or ...

Hoping to help your sixth-grader with reading and writing skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest. Now that your child is in middle school, they will be given longer reading assignments, ...

A readability analysis of presidential candidate speeches finds most candidates using words and grammar typical of students in grades 6-8, though Donald Trump tends to lag behind the others. A ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

Brigid Keenan, who has been teaching at Horace W. Porter, a school she attended when she grew up in Columbia, was recently named the Teacher of the Year in Columbia. “I’m teaching in the same building ...

PITTSBURGH--A readability analysis of presidential candidate speeches by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) finds most candidates using words and grammar ...