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 ...

Both of these studies looked at Florida, a state that has had a 3rd grade reading policy on the books since 2003. In a 2017 study , researchers followed students who were retained in 3rd 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, ...

Teaching in Room 9. Making Inferences - Day 3 | 3rd Grade Reading. Special | 28m 11s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Students review what an inference is and use their skills to help answer questions.

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

Teaching in Room 9. Making Inferences - Day 2 | 3rd Grade Reading. Special | 28m 1s Video has Closed Captions | CC. In this lesson, students will review about what an inference is and they will ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The Third Grade Reading Guarantee isn’t the only literacy-related issue before lawmakers. The General Assembly is also studying DeWine’s budget proposal to transition all public school ...

If lawmakers don’t nix the retention component of the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, it will restart next school year. Read: Students must repeat 3rd grade if they don’t read proficiently.