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A superintendent shares why struggling readers may act out in the classroom and how educators can help identify and support these students.

When I was a school teacher, we’d always see the biggest increase in struggling readers in 6th grade, because that’s when we’d get an influx of new students coming in from their elementary schools. As educators, we’re teaching to a certain level. If a 6th-grader has been struggling since 2nd or 3rd grade, the educator will still be teaching at a 6th-grade level. There may be underlying causes such as dyslexia or another learning disability, but students can get through each grade by keeping silent and trying to hide their challenges with reading (and therefore every other school subject). They may even learn that simply completing assignments, not mastering the concept, is often enough to get a passing grade.

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