“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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Currently, educators decide whether or not a third grader is reading sufficiently and can move on to the fourth grade based on a test. Leaders want to move the test’s cut score up this year ...

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

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

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 ...

State officials described progress after the first year of the Third Grade Success Act ... specific changes for schools aimed at improving reading and math skills for students in grades ...

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 ...