Although reading readiness is highly variable among children, there are quite a few steps that parents and educators can take to determine when they are read. And, perhaps more important for the adults than the children, there are also steps that can be taken to shorten that time.
One of the biggest concerns of secondary school teachers and college instructors is that students are failing to learn the critical reading skills that they need to progress satisfactorily through the upper levels of their education. The prevailing concern is that students who do not learn these skills sufficiently in the lower grades will be unable to properly process the academic information they are presented with in the future.
