Percent of Children with Advanced Reading Skills

Description: 

Percent of children at or above the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading score level 300.

Methodological Notes: 

The NAEP reading scores indicate the following:

200       Ability to understand, combine ideas, and make inferences based on short uncomplicated passages about specific or sequentially related information.

250       Ability to search for specific information, interrelate ideas, and make generalizations about literature, science, and social studies materials.

300       Ability to find, understand, summarize, and explain relatively complicated literary and informational material.

Additional race/ethnic groups are included in the totals but not shown separately.