Test a group of eighth graders who speak English at home. Is their Reading Comprehension better than non-English speakers?

Home; Politics; Features Obama's '8th grade reading level' SOTU address: By the numbers. Tuesday's State of the Union had one of the lowest reading comprehension levels in decades.

Scores for 8th graders have been flat since 2002, and as the chart on the right shows, they’ve been flat at pretty much all achievement levels. Good readers are reading as well as they did in ...

The average eighth-grade reading score declined in more than half of the states compared with 2017, the last time the test was given. The average score in fourth-grade reading declined in 17 states.

The NAEP reading test is focused on reading comprehension. In this example from the 4th grade reading test, students first read a passage about how male emperor penguins care for their young.

Sampled students in the eighth grade across the country are tested for math and reading comprehension on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which the U.S. Department of Education ...

Mr. Phillips said the NAEP results show that the typical 8th grader in Fresno, Calif., Houston, and Milwaukee is reading at the equivalent of the 4th grade proficiency level on NAEP.

However, more than one-third of eighth graders are still not reading on grade level. Eighth grade Reading Status Below grade level - 37.2 percent | 43.9 percent in 2023 ...

But the notion of “grade level” or content comprehensibility is quite extensible beyond reading. For instance, in music, there is the concept of audiation, or music appreciation, the process ...