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Ms. Fouché-Channer said her daughter, Addis, a second grader, reads beyond her bedtime frequently.
Once a week, Tatianna Fahie, 7, a second grader, reads as Gretyl lies calmly across her lap.
"The average Indian fifth grader reads like a second grader in Britain or the U.S. Two-thirds of them can't read a paragraph or do simple fractions," Mr. Jeevan said.
If in the same classroom one fifth grader reads only at a second-grade level and another on an eighth-grade level, a teacher should be evaluated by what is learned by each of them over the course of a year.
Today the average black 12th grader reads at the level of an average white 8th grader and has the math skills of a white 7th grader.
The average fifth grader reads approximately 1 million words of text in a year and of those words, approximately 15,000 to 55,000 different words are novel to the reader (Nagy, Herman, & Anderson, 1985).
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Hispanic fourth-graders read better than the average of all students in 31 other states.
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