81. Parents can now get information on how their infants should be developing, as well as what each state requires children to learn at their respective grade levels. 82. Parents also can get extensive information on how their infants should be developing and what their children should be learning at various grade levels. 83. Parents get into trouble when they think they have to be able to teach the skills in every grade level. 84. Possibly, for they have encountered these words in a middle-school assembly and one or two contemporary novels assigned at their grade level, but probably not. 85. Perhaps even more impressive, phonics students ended the year reading at or above grade level. 86. Remedial instruction also would be mandated at those grade levels for those who fail the tests. 87. Retaining students who do not master basics or who fail the TAAS exams at prescribed grade levels is a solidly conservative idea. 88. School districts would be required to adopt policies ensuring that each third-grader promoted is able to read on grade level. 89. Sergi attributed the success in part to a statewide push to demand proficient reading at the earliest grade levels. 90. Shannon jumped several grade levels and graduated reading on par. |