Third-grade students at Eric White Elementary School were assigned characters and took turns reading roles from a Jack and Beanstalk script. Their teacher, Michael Kimzey, says his students gravitate ...

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward In the summer of 1987, Diamond Newberry is the only Black person in the small town of Swift River since her father vanished seven years ago. Her mother wants to ...

Ethan Pierce, founder of Adaptive Reader, says the goal is to make the classics more accessible for struggling readers and bilingual students by using simplified vocabulary and sentence structures or ...

If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.