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Reading insights, made clear.

Original guidance from ClearCode Reading specialists—published here to help families understand reading progress and take a thoughtful next step.

Bar charts of NAEP reading, 2015 vs. 2024: students below Basic rose 9 points in grades 4 and 8, and students at or above Proficient fell 4–5 points.

How many kids are actually struggling to read?

I became a fourth-grade teacher in 2012, a year after I was a resident teacher in a fifth-grade classroom at the same school. I was my students’ thirteenth teacher since kindergarten. On average, my students were reading two years below grade level. We had a lot of work to do.

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