Some students reach the middle grades unable to read grade level text effectively and with understanding. (greatmiddleschools.org)
Cooperative grouping, project based learning, and other similar approaches may be beneficial in part because they don't lock kids into reading levels — but encourage work with grade level texts or with a range of text difficulties. (shanahanonliteracy.com)
We investigated the automatic assessment of expressive children's oral reading of grade level text passages using a standardized rubric. (semanticscholar.org)