Nearly half of Utah’s K-3 students are reading behind their grade level, even though almost five years ago Utah lawmakers set ...
An eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas, says only two of her 110 students can read at grade level, a revelation ...
The state aims to see 70% of its third graders reading at grade level by 2027. So far, only about half are hitting the mark.
Are you a teacher, instructional coach, or school leader who is concerned about how to support all students in accessing grade-level texts? If so, you are not alone. In fact, in a survey last year, ...
Setting high expectations for reading is not a problem, but labeling only students meeting those high expectations as ...
The state’s largest school districts are facing serious challenges. According to the report, 28.9 percent of Oklahoma City’s third graders and 32.7 percent of Tulsa’s scored “unsatisfactory.” However, ...
Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not winning every game. I shared that I had two primary goals (and neither was piling up ...
Third-grade teacher Bethann Trychon is helping six students in a semicircle around her read “The Brave Little Tailor” one morning at Union Hill School. The students start by reading and defining a ...
Half of Utah’s third graders struggle with reading, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. The report shows only ...
After Reading Darling1's thread about her kid I started to wonder what constitutes a 5th or 6th grade reading levels? I would love to find out what books are at what level. If this kinda website does ...
Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...
On Monday, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute released a report detailing early literacy rates among Utah children, ...