Want to help your third-grader master the basics of reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Use what a sentence says to figure out the meaning of ...
Founded in February 1996, the nonprofit Children’s Reading Foundation (CRF) marks 30 years dedicated to ensuring children ...
Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
After checking out books from the Stanislaus County Library’s Salida branch, Liberty Marshall, 6, right, and sister Emmeline, 5, look at children’s books Monday. The Stanislaus READS initiative is an ...
PROVIDENCE — Slightly more than one-third of all third-graders are meeting Rhode Island's standards in reading. Forty percent of those same students are reading well below grade level. And less than ...
Supervisors of instruction presented a first reading Jan. 4 to update Queen Anne’s County Public Schools’ Promotion and Retention policy for prekindergarten through third grade, aimed at strengthening ...
An early literacy bill includes several strategies designed to boost reading skills in K-3 students — including retention.
Educators have known for decades that learning how to read by the third grade is a critical milestone for children. Students who fall too far behind by the third grade rarely catch up. One recent ...
… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Why is reading a priority? A report by professor Donald J. Hernandez of Hunter ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the reading skills of Ohio's youngest students, according to state data. The third-grade reading proficiency decreased statewide from 67% in the 2018 ...
About two in five third graders participating in the second round of testing for Mississippi’s literacy promotion test scored high enough to move on to the fourth grade, the state Department of ...
At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...