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Experts say that most children learn to read by age 6 or 7, meaning first or second grade, and that some learn much earlier. However, a head start on reading doesn't guarantee a child will stay ahead as they progress through school. Abilities tend to even out in later grades.

Researchers now estimate that 95 percent of all children can be taught to read by the end of first grade, with future achievement constrained* only by students' reasoning and listening comprehension abilities.

With sufficient direct instruction on the foundational skills of reading, 95% of students can learn to read. This is why a Structured Literacy approach is crucial.

Specifically, Congress asked the panel to: Review all the research available (more than 100,000 reading studies) on how children learn to read. Determine the most effective evidence-based methods for teaching children to read.

The seven individual strategies that appear to be effective and most promising for classroom instruction are (in alphabetical order) comprehension monitoring, cooperative learning, graphic and semantic organizers including story maps, question answering, question generation, and summarization.

This body of convergent evidence strongly indicates that approximately 95% of children can be taught to read at or approaching grade level, including students with dyslexia or other learning disabilities (Moats, 2020).

The National Reading Panel identified five key concepts at the core of every effective reading instruction program: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension.

Likewise, the Panel also found that reading comprehension of text is best facilitated by teaching students a variety of techniques and systematic strategies to assist in recall of information, question generation, and summarizing. of information.

Some 34% of students are below basic reading level in the fourth grade, ing to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Another 31% are below the proficient reading level.