Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west and Massachusetts to the north and east , and it shares a water boundary with New York 's Long Island to the southwest .
Simplified: Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts , on the west by Connecticut , and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean . It shares a water border with New York .