States’ year-end reading tests purport to measure general reading comprehension abilities. However, only 6 percent of respondents said they completely agree that the year-end state reading tests ...

“Reading comprehension, in its simplest form ... reading basics down because by the time a student reaches fourth grade, school curricula introduce more complicated subjects and concepts ...

“There are very few tests that even hint at the deeper comprehension levels that we would really like kids as young as third or fourth grade to be able to get into.” That’s not a trivial ...

The study was published in the journal -- Psychological Science. “Background knowledge plays a key role in students’ reading comprehension. Our findings show that if students don’t have ...