The most popular books, the three books in The Hunger Games series, were assessed to be at the fifth-grade level. Last year, for the first time, Renaissance did a separate study to find out what ...

Grabau added, "we know at the third grade our young students start to use reading to learn." United Way volunteers packed 650 bookbags with four books and a coupon for a fifth book they can redeem ...

ATOS, the reading level system used by the Accelerated Reader program, rates it at reading level 4.8 (i.e., 4th grade, 8th month). Using the first 200 words from Chapter 2 of the book, the Free ...

One of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs for young children has taken another hit to its credibility. Reading Recovery — a one-on-one tutoring program for first graders ...

Now, midway through third grade, he is reading like a mid-year first grader — two years behind where he’s supposed to be. But, says Gilbert-Jackson, it's progress. "You can see the wheels ...

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 ...

Reading wasn’t something he did for fun; it was something that got in the way of playing with his friends. Now, Irby — a former first-grade and kindergarten teacher — is on a mission to make reading ...

Additionally, kindergarten and second grade students who attended a "department-funded high-quality summer reading program or a Learning Beyond the Bell out-of-school program" also will receive books.