Probably not, but researchers have long believed that it probably happened some time during fourth grade. That’s when, they thought, word-processing tended to become more automatic and less deliberate ...

Growing up as the "whoops child" for a mother who taught high-school English, Sally C. Fuller could not avoid being engulfed in a world of words. Her siblings were 10 and 12 years older, so Fuller ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Looking out over a Penn Brook School cafetorium filled to capacity with the families and friends of the third graders filling the stage Monday, Spelling Bee MC Starr Anderson has some advice. “Relax, ...

New research finds preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and ...

Terri Bollinger, principal at the Ridge Central elementary school, has noticed a troubling trend. Her third graders are doing incredibly well. Most of them meet or exceed Illinois state reading ...

DENVER — Sam Mercer, a 9-year-old fourth grader at Rocky Mountain Prep Ruby Hill in Denver, accomplished an extraordinary feat this summer: reading one million words in just over a month. Mercer ...