Third grade is regarded as a turning point in reading, when students are expected to read more complex text across the school ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, according to a new study.

Third grade is considered a pivotal point in a child’s education because it marks a transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn,” Sno-Isle Libraries says. Since 2013, ...

Texas lawmakers want to help young learners who are lagging behind in math and reading, an early setback that threatens to ...

Tuscaloosa City Schools third-graders have made a marked improvement in their reading skills over the past year, the system ...

New Jersey’s youngest students should expect new tools in their classrooms this fall, as schools implement new laws to reboot ...

Just over half of the third graders in Jackson Public Schools are reading on grade level, according to test results released ...

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...

Nearly 60% of third graders weren’t reading at grade level last year ... Prioritizing phonics gives short shrift to those other skills, she said. “Literacy is multi-dimensional,” Hernandez said.