Sentences with phrase «english reading performance»

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Oh, and her English teacher recommends that she attend Shakespeare performances at the local college to supplement the many plays she's required to read as part of AP English.

Gold's setting in British Columbia requires the odd bit of English dialogue and here, the limitations of the cast, and perhaps Arslan's direction, is noticeable — the dialogue in these sections feels strained, reactions after line readings feel a beat too slow, at times, and the performances just don't have the heft of when Arslan is directing his cast in their natural language.

Under the new system, grades one through three are measured against a goal of reading by the end of third grade; grades four through six on proficient or advanced performance on the English and math portions of a state test indicating middle school readiness; seven, eight, and nine on high school readiness with passing all ninth - grade; grades 10, 11, and 12 focus on the goal of high school graduation.

According to Timothy Shanahan of the University of Illinois, Chicago, «Devoting 80 percent of reading instruction to literature may improve students» performance in their English classes, but what about social studies, science, and math?»

To provide a more rigorous evaluation of the program's impact, we compare the reading and English performance of individual students attending NLP and comparison schools in 1997 and 1998, while taking into account a wide variety of school characteristics that could also influence student achievement.

The latest performance data for primary schools shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others in a combined measure of English, reading and mathematics has decreased in each of the last six years, narrowing by 1.3 per cent in the latest year and 10.5 per cent since 2011.

Individual scores on the annual Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in mathematics and reading and English language arts were used as the measure of student performance.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Wyoming Content and Performance Standards and the WY - TOPP and WY - ACT assessments.

[From findings on the Transfer of Skills from Spanish to English: A Study of Young Learners, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.] The results indicated that Spanish phonemic awareness, Spanish letter identification, and Spanish word reading were reliable predictors of performance on parallel tasks in English at the end of third and fourth grades.

Parent reports available in English and Spanish for Star Reading, Star Math, Star Early Literacy, and Star Custom provides a summary of student performance and a brief definition of scores.

These will be replaced with «pre-key stage standards» in English reading, writing and maths, which rate a pupil's performance using «I can» sentences.

As part of a high school reform initiative, 10th grade English language arts teachers and literacy coaches worked with a data coach to define essential questions about students» reading performance.

The Improving America's Schools Act — the 1994 reauthorization of ESEA — required states to assess the reading and mathematics performance of all students, including students with disabilities and English language learners, and report disaggregated results.

Oak Brook Elementary is an A-rated school serving over 350 students from diverse backgrounds, but it struggles to make Adequate Yearly Progress in reading, as required by the No Child Left Behind Act, when student performances for Hispanics and English language learners are disaggregated.

According to the most recent state performance reports, minority charter students outperform their traditional school peers in Reading, Writing, and Social Studies, and Limited English Proficiency charter students outperform in all subject areas.

The study assessed the ability of English phonemic awareness measures to predict kindergarten reading performance and determine factors that contributed to growth trajectories on those measures for

The bill would also require the California Department of Education to «suspend LCFF funding if a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) is not significantly improving pupil reading and comprehension skills and English learner performance» and to «prohibit educational agencies from receiving LCFF monies if their LCAP does not include evidence - based programs.»

Their performance on English math, English reading, or English science tests is not always valid.

In stark contrast, Hispanic and Asian students who are English Read more about Five Key Trends in U.S. Student Performance -LSB-...]

In math, reading, English Language Arts, science, special education and professional learning, Cambium solutions close performance gaps and transform struggling students into proficient, confident learners.

Yet the results reveal an overall trend in Connecticut of stagnant student performance in math, reading and English Language Arts.

As far a performance goes, the HCZ Promise Academy high school may have decent state test scores, but when it comes to national tests they only had on the ACT a 20 in Math, a 15 in English, a 15 in Reading, and a 17 in Science.

Achieve3000 continues to offer the only customized literacy platform — in English and Spanish — that provides truly differentiated instruction to reach all students at their individual reading levels, providing equity of access to core instruction to accelerate their learning, improve performance on high - stakes assessments and prepare them for college and career success

Achieve3000 differentiates lessons at 12 levels of English and 8 levels of Spanish to ensure all learners engage at their individual reading levels, accelerating reading gains, boosting mastery of state and Common Core Standards and performance on high - stakes tests, and preparing them for college and career — and beyond.

The authors find that statewide accountability measures fall into one of seven main categories of indicators: achievement indicators, such as proficiency in reading and mathematics; student growth indicators in multiple academic subjects; English language acquisition indicators; early warning indicators, such as chronic absenteeism; persistence indicators, such as graduation rates; college - and career - ready indicators, such as participation in and performance on college entry exams; and other indicators, such as access to the arts.

Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts (ELA) identify K - 12 grade - level literacy performance expectations in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language, with specific benchmarks by grade for developmental progress.

Better English teachers not only boost a student's reading and writing performance in the short term, but they also raise their students math and English achievement in future years.

Wisconsin's plan uses a broad array of factors to determine school performance, including academic achievement in reading and math tests, graduation rates, progress in attaining English language proficiency and chronic absenteeism.

Devoting 80 percent of reading instruction to literature may improve students» performance in their English classes, but what about social studies, science, and math?

Because students are assessed annually in English reading and mathematics in grades 3 - 8, it is possible to compare year - to - year performance.

Square Enix has today announced that the English - born actress Camilla Luddington has been chosen to be the voice and performance actress of famous video game adventurer, Lara Croft in the new Tomb Rai... [Read More]

Participants were included if they were right - handed, native English speakers with normal or corrected - to - normal vision and reported no history of neurological or psychiatric disorders with a confirmed absence of DSM - IV Axis I diagnoses using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV and were also free of psychoactive medications and had a verbal IQ ≥ 97, performance IQ ≥ 98, and full - scale IQ ≥ 98 as measured by the American National Adult Reading Test.