Not surprisingly, it appears that documents which break out benchmarks at grades K - 3 are more likely to address the foundational knowledge and skills related to reading acquisition than are those that provide only
grade cluster information.
For this analysis, we examined
the grade cluster information for the lowest grade cluster provided (e.g., K - 2, 1 - 3, K - 4).
Not exact matches
We began this area of our analysis with a comparison between the 26 reading / language documents that include benchmarks only at
grade cluster levels (e.g., K - 4) and the 14 documents that provide
information by
grade level for
grades K - 3.