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Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their ...
Reading comprehension requires teachers to integrate the vocabulary—often domain-specific words and concepts related to the content—into their teaching of the text.
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.
The purpose of the Read STOP Write project is to develop, implement, refine and test the effects of a multicomponent intervention to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students’ foundational reading ...
Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...
The comprehension of written texts requires interpretation of language in print form. To make sense of those symbols, one must have a grasp of the "language code"-to have a storehouse of words in ...
Atlanta Public Schools was the only large, urban school system in the U.S. that showed significant improvement in fourth grade math and reading scores on the 2024 National Assessment of ...
Instructional Strategies to Enhance Literacy Outcomes Through Fingerspelling. We have developed an evidence based intervention called Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading, that is specifically designed ...
SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...
"Our fourth grade reading scores are virtually the same compared to 2022, and almost identical to 20 years ago. In mathematics, we also see outcomes that, while higher than most states, ...
EdTrust‘s report highlighted the difference in fourth-grade reading for all students over two decades with Michigan falling by 10 points compared to the nation’s two-point decline.
For Detroit's fourth-grade reading, the score dropped two points to 174 in 2024 from 176 in 2022. Fourth-grade math scores in Detroit improved 6 points to 200 last year from 194 in 2022.