Student literacy skills improve

Sami Crockett, a first grade teacher at North Elementary School, leads her students through a phonics lesson that introduced the class to the sounds pairs of consonants make during a lesson Nov. 20. These lessons represent the different strategies teachers use to help their students strengthen their reading comprehension, vocabulary and other literacy skills.

Photo by Brian S. Orban

BOISE – Students in a number of school districts across the state showed steady progress with regards to their early literacy skills, including students in places like Mountain Home who showed some gains with their proficiency in areas like reading comprehension and vocabulary skills.

Twice a year, students in kindergarten to third grade complete the Idaho Reading Indicator, or IRI, test to measure their early literacy skills.

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