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A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...
If you’ve missed childhood summer reading challenges, you're in luck! The National Book Foundation’s Summer Reading Adventure, created in partnership with the New York Public Library, is a reading ...
"Our assessment of reading comprehension is very surface-level," he said. "We have to figure out a better way to do it. I wouldn't be surprised if AI was part of the solution to get a really good ...
Reading assessments can serve a variety of purposes: to identify which students need extra help; to diagnose students’ trouble spots; and to monitor progress, which can gauge whether a ...
Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...
Reading-comprehension assessment: A test of students’ ability to understand what they read. Most of these assessments, such as the ones states give at the end of the year, ...
Adult literacy problems are tricky to resolve and lack a one-size-fits-all solution. When adults join reading programs, they can be at literacy levels ranging from third graders to high school ...
Sampled students in the eighth grade across the country are tested for math and reading comprehension on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which the U.S. Department of Education ...
Children build upon these pillars of reading comprehension as they mature. By the time they reach 12th grade, these practices allow students to not only understand what they’re reading but also ...
A mystery surrounding the relationship between reading and memory is whether it's reading that helps to improve memory or if strong working memory abilities improve reading comprehension skills.
Increasing comprehension is a fundamental skill in the reading process, particularly in grades K-4. In some cases, children are able to read words and their comprehension difficulties go unnoticed.