High-stakes year begins for kids still learning to read

Third-grade teacher Chelsea Grant looks at a computer in her classroom at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. Five of the 19 students in Grant’s classroom are reading below grade level. When it was time to read aloud on a recent Friday, the students showed vastly different levels of skill and confidence. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)

Five of the 19 students in teacher Chelsea Grant’s third-grade classroom are reading below grade level.

When it’s time to read aloud on a recent Friday, the students show vastly different levels of skill and confidence.

“Remember you read with expression, feeling and fluency,” Grant told her Atlanta students. “I want to feel it.”