Want to help your second-grader master the basics of English Language Arts? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Use what they understand about a sentence to ...

Kim Kohlrus’ 2nd grade classroom is alive with wiggling, chanting children. They’re on their feet, swaying and twisting as their teacher leads them in a call-and-response of letter combinations.

Scott Simon speaks to author Jamil Jan Kochai and his 2nd-grade teacher, Susannah Lung, who taught him how to read and write English after his family moved to the U.S. from Pakistan. Jamil Jan Kochai ...