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How the Primary Grades Can Save Us: Growing American Reading Comprehension
2018
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When recent NAEP results came out, the bleak headline was that American students are not getting better at reading comprehension. When the NAEP folks convened a panel of reading experts in early April, the primary grades got called out as one potential culprit. So what needs re-evaluating in K-3 literacy? One reasonable place to look is atĀ oral reading fluencyĀ and theĀ foundational skillsĀ that feed word decoding.
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