Instructional intervention. My students and I developed a full-year intervention to teach text structure to second grade students at risk for academic failure (Williams, 2008). The intervention ...

figuring out sentence structure -- to reading to learn. By fourth grade, children should be using those foundational pieces learned in the previous grades to gain knowledge of other subjects.

The Tennessee Department of Education has released third- and fourth-grade scores for the English Language Arts section of the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program tests. And scores for ...