The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading ... of literature and informational text, the use of vocabulary, and reading skills including ...

Teachers are required to test the reading level of children in kindergarten, first, second and third grade ... into the fourth grade, she said, they read more informational texts.

The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade ...

It showed that 3rd grade reading proficiency did not improve between 2007 and 2014. And over the same period, the analysis showed “a statistically significant downward trend in reading ...