“We want to make sure that every parent is cognizant of the importance of this third grade reading test ... reading with an adult, reading to an adult, an adult reading to them. Help students if they ...

Every corner of the first-grade wing at Pleasant Run Elementary comes alive during small-group reading time. Teachers and ...

Last year, only about 60% of Pleasant Run students passed IREAD. But this year, the scores jumped 21.5 percentage points one ...

After M-STEP results showed poor proficiency in third grade reading last year, legislators approved bills that would change ...

Book Buddies has proved an asset in preparing students to pass IREAD-3, the test given to every one of the state’s third-graders to measure their foundational reading skills.

They found that by third grade, the treatment group significantly ... One likely reason for that variation is that the passages on standardized reading tests are on random topics that students ...

COLUMBIA — Fewer than half of South Carolina third- through eighth-grade students ... the percentage of students who ended last school year reading on grade level was barely over half, according ...

A special recognition went to Mrs. Spaeth for her outstanding support in leading reading-focused professional development ...

The administration’s literacy efforts will also be bolstered by a new five-year, $38.4 million federal grant, which was ...

In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers ...

Districts like New York are revamping elementary school reading instruction. But the middle and high schoolers who don’t read proficiently are an afterthought. By Troy Closson American public ...

Much of the reading material at Garden ... no longer makes her honors ninth-grade English class read all of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” She assigns about a third of the book and a synopsis ...