Inside the Mind of a Third-Grader

I asked a grade 3 student to draw anything that comes to his mind so we can describe it in Tigrigna, as part of a Tigrigna lesson; and this is what he got:

Tech Ease

Why are online newspaper articles on current events easier to read than, say, an academic article that deals with even a slight deviance from the area of the reader's interest? Well, some of the answers are as obvious as pointing out the fact that news articles and analysis are going to be readable simply because they are intended for an average consumer with the most standard and comprehensible language possible. But other less obvious answers may be that these online articles are presented in the most readable format. My attention was brought into this thought by a function on Safari browser that I just discovered. It is a "reader" function located at the rightmost side of the URL box. I was about to give up reading an article until I discovered this function and changed my mind and went back to reading it from the first paragraph.

Seeing is believing:

Here is a shot of the article in its original form:




And here is the same page after reader is activated: