Berg: Educators teach skills that every student in the room is ready for. There’s no guessing and no watering down instruction.

This article describes work undertaken in an inner city Birmingham school to raise literacy levels for year 7 students ...

It’s important to have these reading basics down because by the time a student reaches fourth grade ... be employed at school and at home to improve reading comprehension.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment to its Commissioner’s List of Approved Grade 7 Reading Instruments ... fluency, and comprehension, and assist ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned ... report that their students have difficulties reading grade ...

This means you need to be thinking about what you are reading, as you are reading it. You will be asked comprehension questions ... once everyone went home, he would clean classrooms and leave ...

Sounding out words, completing sentences and reading for comprehension ... disheartening to hear that our kids in the 5th, 6th, 7th grade cannot read at the third grade level," Dr. Charlie ...

McMahon appeared to be referencing National Assessment of Educational Progress proficiency scores, which do not indicate grade-level performance.

Because it's hard to grapple with the eighth grade text if you are on a lower reading level." A study released Tuesday from Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth also cites a widespread rise in ...