After fifth grade, the boost from better decoding instruction disappears. That’s probably because as grades go up, success on reading tests reflects comprehension ability more than decoding ability.

The fifth-grade reading standards ... when they were given a passage about baseball. The way to build reading comprehension, then, is to build knowledge and vocabulary in subjects like history ...

Pandemic-related learning loss has seen reading and math scores drop, but staff at Robert Gray Elementary School are ...