Why should we read children's nonfiction animal books? Teaching kids about animals is akin to teaching colors and numbers. Right? Children love to learn how to identify dogs, cats, cows, and chickens.

Most poetry and songs for young students rhyme and have strong rhythm which ... During the summer, Lani came to my house four days a week and when second grade started, Monday through Thursday ...

The fire is so scary, but the best we can do is try to move on.” Charlotte and Mason are part of a second grade class that is sending special boxes full of comfort items to students their age in ...

A New Jersey elementary school canceled a second-grade field trip to a center named for women’s rights icon Alice Paul after a barrage of online bullying created a security risk, the school ...

For the first time, second graders are mandated to take the statewide reading assessment—allowing schools to catch literacy challenges earlier. Educators say this move will help identify ...

Knowing how important phonemic awareness is, I created a mini-poetry unit based around rhyming ... the older students were expected to be role models and leaders in this language area. The writing ...

Rhyme memorization: the poem consisted of a total of seven rhymes, each of which consisted of two words; 2 points were awarded to students who correctly recalled ... reading the poem a second time, (5 ...

The stanza hits the key points readers may expect of Plath’s poetry, and perhaps a poem more generally. It suggests a sense of despair as the writer struggles with internal demons. “Mess” and “chest” ...

“Mess” and “chest” are a near-rhyme, which reassures ... whether they thought each poem was AI or human, rating their confidence on a scale of 1-100. A second group of participants were ...

When students encounter a virtuosic performance—especially a recitation—they can experience poems more immediately and in a way that resonates with their basic nature. In my second year of ... on the ...