After fifth grade, the boost from better decoding instruction disappears. That’s probably because as grades go up, success on reading tests reflects comprehension ability more than decoding ability.

The Alabama state superintendent’s office says they are expecting somewhere between 15% and 20% of third graders to read below grade level ... Mackey also says the test is not just about reading, but ...

refine and test the effects of a multicomponent intervention to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students’ foundational reading skills (word recognition, morphology and fluency), reading comprehension, ...