Sentences with phrase «children read passages»

Children read passages aloud or silently, then answer multiple choice questions and open ended questions that they must read for themselves.

The children read a passage written at an early 5th - grade reading level that described a half inning of a baseball game.

This is followed by the parent and child reading the passage together several times.

The child reads the passage aloud, while the adult times him or her using a stopwatch for a specific amount of time (usually one minute).

Not exact matches

When the Rev. David Squyres read this passage from «Salem's Lot,» one of Jesus» most popular sayings flashed before him: ``... Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.»

Go read the bible and find the passages and see how he killed millions of people and every single man, woman, and child on this planet even for no reason so noah could survive.

Jews read this passage on Rosh Hashanah, Muslims on Eid Al Ahda — and some in both communities wonder whether it isn't time to become more modern and avoid this discussion of child sacrifice.

But as this father read this passage to his children, his four year old son broke out in hysterical laughter.

Overhearing a child's game in which one of the participants cried, Tolle, lege, «pick it up, read it,» Augustine quickly flung open his Bible to the passage that changed the rest of his life.

And the other example is the startlingly brilliant and heartbreaking passage in which Tolstoy describes the thoughts and internal apprehensions of Anna's child Seryozha in the long days since his mother went away — a scene that is more or less indescribable and that one must read to appreciate.

As a parent, I read the passage with even wider eyes — imagine being asked to sacrifice your child, the beloved gift that you have waited for all of your life.

She reads a passage from Ralph Ellison's essay What These Children Are Like.

After she reads a nonfiction passage or chapter, have your child verbally summarize the main ideas and details to you.

I don't attend any toddler groups, I don't spend much time with other children of a similar age to mine, and my contact with La Leche League is limited to helping my wife who is a Leader prepare for meetings, and reading various passages from books that she passes to me on the couch at night.

By contrast, achievement scores on the Woodcock Word, Passage, and Reading Comprehension tests were higher for breastfed than for bottle - fed children (Table 4).

In one particularly disturbing passage from the report, Jay stated: «We read cases where a child was doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, children who were threatened with guns, children who witnessed brutally violent rapes and were threatened that they would be the next victim if they told anyone.

That said, it would be better — and far more fair — if test writers took care to choose reading passages about subjects children are more likely to have encountered in school.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency prreading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency prReading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

These First Grade Reading Comprehension passages and questions are centered around topics of interest to children in the 6 - 7 age group.

That kind of talk goes «a long way toward explaining why No Child Left Behind has not worked,» she says, overlooking the fact that gains in math and reading since its passage have amounted to 8 percent of a standard deviation, with even larger gains among minority students (see «Grinding the Antitesting Ax,» check the facts, Spring 2012).

Improve your students / child's reading speed and accuracy with repeated readings of these 1st Grade Fluency passages.

The children with dyslexia improved significantly in reading ability, as measured by tests of real word reading (Word Identification), pseudo-word decoding (a measure of phonological awareness)(Word Attack), and passage comprehension (Table 2).

2001 brought passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, a momentous reauthorization of the ESEA, declaring not only that every single student should become «proficient» in math and reading, but also that every school in the land would have its performance reported, both school wide and for its student demographic subgroups, and that schools failing to make «adequate yearly progress» would face a cascade of sanctions and interventions.

For each passage read, a child's word recognition score and passage - retelling score was recorded.

If it had not been encountered in the procedure to establish instructional level, every third grader was asked to read from the grade 3 passage so that a fluency measure (wcpm) could be obtained for every child on a grade - level passage.

Children were asked to try to read a preprimer passage from the Qualitative Reading Inventory II (QRI - II)(Leslie & Caldwell, 1995).

In the fall, children were individually tested by a member of our research team on the reading words test for grade 1 and a grade 1 passage from the QRI - II.

They are also child orientated, with shorter reading passages and more straightforward questions.

We assessed the children on their ability to read and understand passages.

This corresponds with Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, which shows that average reading and math scores for top - performing students improved between 2002 and 2011 (versus almost no change between 1998 and 2002, before No Child was implemented), while the percentage of students reaching such levels increased since its passage (including a four percentage point increase in the number of students reaching such levels in reading between 2002 and 2013).

We investigated the automatic assessment of expressive children's oral reading of grade level text passages using a standardized rubric.

This is also true when it comes to reading, which explains why fewer kids are reading at levels of functional illiteracy than before the year after the passage of No Child a decade ago.

Passage of the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2001 put into motion an accountability system that held school districts accountable for reading and mathematics proficiency.

After reading each passage, the child is asked to answer multiple choice questions that are read by the examiner.

Children have approximately thirty seconds after reading the passage to respond.

Therefore, I will utilize other means to get the meaning across to that student by either reading the passage to him / her, using a device such as audible.com to read to the child, or chunk the reading into more manageable reading tasks.

I am a special education English teacher and although we are not licensed to diagnose a certain behavior or disability, I know that when a child acts up in my class, it is because he / she can not read the passage I had just assigned (also by reviewing and following their IEPs).

Children are required to read passages to themselves, then fill in the blanks to demonstrate their understanding.

In the spring, all children were assessed on fluency using a passage at grade level (Johns, 1997), on reading comprehension (Gates), and on writing (using the same prompt as was used in the fall).

Each night the parent reads a brief poem or passage to their child.

The child rereads the passage, and tries to beat their previous time while making less reading errors.

In the fall, children in grades 2 - 6 were individually assessed on fluency (words correct per minute) based on their reading of a BRI passage (Johns, 1997) that was one grade level below their grade placement.

When the child can read a passage relatively fluently on the first reading, the adult provides a more difficult passage.

The National Reading Panel (NRP) study in 2000 identified the specific components necessary to teach reading, and the subsequent passage in 2001of the No Child Left Behind Act and its accompanying Reading First initiative mandated that schools be accountable for providing scientific, research - based reading programs (with financial block grants to states that adopt such curriReading Panel (NRP) study in 2000 identified the specific components necessary to teach reading, and the subsequent passage in 2001of the No Child Left Behind Act and its accompanying Reading First initiative mandated that schools be accountable for providing scientific, research - based reading programs (with financial block grants to states that adopt such currireading, and the subsequent passage in 2001of the No Child Left Behind Act and its accompanying Reading First initiative mandated that schools be accountable for providing scientific, research - based reading programs (with financial block grants to states that adopt such curriReading First initiative mandated that schools be accountable for providing scientific, research - based reading programs (with financial block grants to states that adopt such currireading programs (with financial block grants to states that adopt such curriculum).

Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, reading and math often have crowded out other crucial subjects, like science, civics, and history.

To estimate kids» oral reading fluency, DIBELS requires that children perform two one - minute reads; two readings, two passages.

This is an informal evaluation, based on the child's responses to short interesting reading passages at each grade level.

For example, by the end of first grade we want all children to read at least 40 words correct per minute on a first grade reading passage and demonstrate a level of reading comprehension that is commensurate with this level of fluency which on the DRA is a Level 18 or higher.

Children's oral reading was assessed according to their performance on two of the graded reading passages.

Ever since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, most... Read More