By fifth or sixth grade, it is too late for some.

The number of students by grade is depicted below in 2011.

By eighth grade, they're in the middle of the pack.

Children who do not learn to read by third grade continue to find reading a challenge throughout their lives.

By fourth grade, my son was playing on a travel team.

The goal is to bring academic performance up to or above the class average by sixth grade.

By eighth grade he was the captain of his team.

By ninth grade, she said, it was just part of life.

The key to success is getting nearly all students to read and write by third grade.

If a child cannot read by second grade, he or she is lost to the educational system.