Teachers evaluated the same second-grade writing sample more harshly when there were clues that it had been written by a Black boy than when it appeared to have been written by a white boy.

Second grade is a fun and very big year for kids! They’re no longer the littlest kids at school and their schoolwork will become more challenging.

Morphosyntax is a linguistic term related to word grammar Results of Royle and Marquis' study indicate that first grade oral skills were predictive of second grade writing skills one year later.