N. P. Terry, Brandy Gatlin-Nash, M. Webb, coryus llc, S. R. Summy, Rhonda Raines
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Revisiting the Fourth-Grade Slump among Black Children
Nearly 30 years ago, Chall, Jacobs, and Baldwin introduced the fourth-grade slump to describe the unexpected deceleration of reading skills between first and fourth grades among children growing up in poverty and low-income households. Advances in our understanding of reading development and how race, racism, or other forms of discrimination are implicated in student achievement encourage another look at the slump among Black children. We reexamined the slump in a cross-sectional, heterogeneous sample (n = 757) of typically developing, Black children (ages 6–11 years old), most of whom were growing up in low-income households. As in the original study, we observed a downward trend in word reading and reading comprehension skills between first and fourth grades. However, unlike the original study, children demonstrated relatively weaker performance on oral language measures at each grade level. Implications for studying oral language and reading in Black children are discussed.
期刊介绍:
The Elementary School Journal has served researchers, teacher educators, and practitioners in the elementary and middle school education for over one hundred years. ESJ publishes peer-reviewed articles dealing with both education theory and research and their implications for teaching practice. In addition, ESJ presents articles that relate the latest research in child development, cognitive psychology, and sociology to school learning and teaching. ESJ prefers to publish original studies that contain data about school and classroom processes in elementary or middle schools while occasionally publishing integrative research reviews and in-depth conceptual analyses of schooling.