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 ...

Nearly a quarter of third graders did not pass the state’s reading test on their first try. Many are now in summer school, ...

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 ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below ...

Eliminating third through eighth grade reading tests would likely have an additional good effect of freeing teachers to spend more time on history, science, art and music, which paradoxically ...

Kristen Hernandez, 9, was told last year that her reading score on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or Staar test, “approaches” but does not “meet” grade level.

Read a passage from the third-grade reading test called “Secrets Are Hard to Keep” and answer the six questions that students were tested on.

Making Inferences - Day 2 | 3rd Grade Reading. ... will review about what an inference is and they will use their inferencing skills to help answer questions about small passages.

(See list below: top, bottom school districts on reading test passage rates) The Literacy Based Promotion Act requires third-graders to obtain a certain reading score to advance to fourth grade.

The third-grade ELA portion of the M-STEP also includes answering questions about a longer passage, writing paragraphs and matching notes with main ideas, for example. How did you do?

The researchers found that in every one of Ohio’s 611 school districts, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee passage rates were higher than the fourth-grade English Language Arts proficiency rates.

More: Michigan Senate panel advances bill scrapping retention in third-grade reading law Rep. Matt Koleszar, the Plymouth Democrat who leads the House Education Committee, dismissed Paquette's ...