Teachers Say Older Kids Need Help With Basic Reading Skills, Too Education Week
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Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more training in this area, too, concludes a new survey.
The nationally representative survey from the RAND Corporation includes 1,483 teachers in grades 3-8. On average, teachers in these grades reported that 44 percent of their students always or nearly always faced challenges reading the content in their classes. Ninety-seven percent of teachers said they modified their instruction to support struggling readers at least once or twice a week.
The results come on the heels of a previous RAND survey that found many secondary teachers still work with students on foundational reading skills like sounding out words and spelling.
