Students read challenging texts — Hamlet, The Great Gatsby — in class, then take an oral examination in which they argue a point one - on - one with their teacher about a particular passage from one of the texts.
Not exact matches
«It's called «extreme
reading,»» and it «
challenges students to
read no matter where they are or what else they're doing: jumping on a trampoline, skydiving, playing soccer, riding a horse, sledding, or even swimming underwater.»
In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a
challenge for low - income
students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we
read that
students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.
I made my
students read Nazi theology because I wanted to
challenge them to see how the Christian legacy of anti-Semitism, which goes back to claims in the Gospel of John that the Jews killed Jesus, had been used to justify the murder of Jews.
I
read with interest the article «Turning noses up at healthier meals;
Student reaction to new CPS lunches shows
challenges for schools hoping to change diets» (Page 1, Feb. 21).
How this relates to the comments above:» Paly... been a
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student than peer high schools I've
read, and a later start / no zero period that promotes sleep.
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However, I am realizing as I
read Dr. Whitten's text that I do need to create
challenges for my
students to navigate, such as copious fluids that must be suctioned prior to visualizing cords.
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Another major
challenge I think every medical
student faces [sic] which I also faced was how to remember the things I have
read after a long time.
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Challenge will challenge the machine reading comprehension in the coming months, a highly challenging artificial intelligence contest set by M
Challenge will
challenge the machine reading comprehension in the coming months, a highly challenging artificial intelligence contest set by M
challenge the machine
reading comprehension in the coming months, a highly
challenging artificial intelligence contest set by Microsoft.
As an added push this year, Room to
Read has inaugurated the Literacy One
Challenge, which invites
students and schools to match a 2007 donation from Scholastic of 400,000 English - language books sent to Room to
Read schools and libraries in Cambodia.
When
students are struggling with a difficult text, Snow suggests that teachers create the same solution that adults seek out when they tackle
challenging material: the opportunity to
read with others and discuss the content.
While the NCLB mandate of having 100 percent of
students proficient in
reading and math was
challenging, it was never viewed as realistic.
But for the millions of
students with dyslexia,
reading is a difficult task that poses constant academic and emotional
challenges.
The
Student Editions include: • Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • Links to practice quizzes or activities • 12 assessments that include a total of 39 multiple choice, 2 true / false, and 2 sorting questions • Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards • Examples of how
students can apply the standards to their
reading and deepen their understanding of what they are
reading • Excerpts from several high - quality texts, including: - «Harriet: The Moses of Her People» by Sarah H. Bradford - «The Narrative of Sojourner Truth» by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth - «On Women's Right to Vote» by Susan B. Anthony - «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death» by Patrick Henry • Accompanying Teaching Notes files The Teaching Notes files include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your
students explore the standard • Links to additional resources • Ideas to differentiate the activities for
students who need extra support or to be
challenged further • Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
While the traditional classroom teacher is bound to confront
students with
reading difficulties, most teachers have not received much (or any) preparation for the specific teaching
challenges these
students present.
So here was my
challenge: can I teach programming to
students who do not yet
read?
To
read more about
students» work on the agricultural
challenge with the Visitors» Center and to get the perspective from our outside expertise partner, view the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's blog, Impatient Optimists.
U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International
Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most
challenged students.
As more and more teachers are building choice
reading time into their daily classroom schedules, making a variety of books available to a diverse group of
students can be
challenging.
«The
students are working as a team, and learning about stories; they have learned that a lot of
reading and writing is involved, and they've learned what a
challenge it is to remain unbiased.»
This 16 - page resource booklet contains a wide range of
challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the
reading of E.E. Cummings» poem «next to of course god america i.» They are perfect for aiding the progress of
students learning poetry either in KS3 and KS4 in preparation for poetry / unseen poetry at GCSE, as the tasks draw on English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies - it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
If you're up for a
challenge, stop and brainstorm before
reading on: how many
student - friendly strategies can you come up with?
Such an aspiration is a
challenge at the school, where up to 90 percent of
students in the inaugural class entered with
reading and math skills below grade level.
In contrast to high school, my college professors invited
students to
challenge their beliefs and question what they
read in textbooks.
Genetics is a complex subject with
challenging vocabulary, and while
reading aloud, one
student admitted that he did nt know how to pronounce heredity.
By marked contrast, Common Core asks teachers to think carefully about what children
read and choose grade - level texts that use sophisticated language or make significant knowledge demands of the reader (teachers should also be prepared, of course, to offer
students support as they grapple with
challenging books).
After
reading the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, I issue a
challenge to the
students.
She's encouraged, pushed, nudged, and
challenged at the right times, in the right ways, and has helped our
students discover their own personal, healthy
reading lives this year.
The Internet is full of foreign language content, but locating
reading material that's interesting to the individual, at their level and buried within the English, Spanish or German speaking world - wide - web can be an overwhelming and off - putting
challenge for
students and teachers alike.
Hear how two experienced educators use
read alouds to meet the
challenges of differentiating instruction, expanding
student learning, and addressing curriculum.
Below is the percentage of
students scoring at the «proficient» level or higher on the
reading NAEP, meaning they demonstrated mastery over the
challenging subject matter.
As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many
challenges students face as they transition from «learning to
read» to «
reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different
reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.
«The
challenge set for our teachers in pre-primary (Foundation) was to ensure that
students could
read [the Oxford Word List] and write before they finished that year,» MacNeill adds.
Seen through this lens, close
reading is not a workaround for a
student's lack of background knowledge and vocabulary; it's a way of getting more by engaging kids in
challenging works that stretch their abilities.
Creating questions that require
students to
read complex texts can be a
challenging thing to do.
- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective +
challenge activities throughout the power - point - Vocabulary games and worksheets with
challenge activities - A lesson on teachers and comparatives to build up the vocabulary range of your
students - Some fun mini-whiteboard games on opinions (speaking activity)- explanation under the slide - A role - play activity on school subjects and teachers - Sentence building activity on comparatives (see worksheet)- A lesson on friendship and adjectives to describe your friends - A written activity and competition game with mini-whiteboard on friendship - A worksheet to accompany each power - point - A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit -
Reading and grammar end of unit test LESSON 3 is FREE here so you can check the standard of my resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-free-allez-1-unit-2-3-l-cole-tu-aimes-editable-11250892 I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message.
Because of different math backgrounds, learning strengths,
reading skills, and English language proficiency,
students have varying levels of achievable
challenge in different math topics, so flexible groupings should be designed so
students can move easily between them, depending on their mastery of specific math topics.
Then
challenge students to work together to create a new short legend, using the examples they heard and
read as models.
Students interested in sports can
read how top athletes continually push themselves by setting higher goals or how Thomas Edison failed repeatedly before succeeding with experiments because he was always
challenging himself.
He trained his teachers on these programs, ensuring that the
students in the top
reading groups would be
challenged with difficult material.
Finding appropriate and relevant
reading materials for
students can be
challenging — even more so if the classroom includes
students for whom English is a new language.
To match the Common Core,
reading programs must also encourage
students to grapple with
challenging texts that are worth
reading.
During Minnesotas I Love to
Read Month celebration in February, Will Remmert, principal of Washington Elementary School in Mankato, challenged his 450 students to read a total of 145,000 minutes outside the classr
Read Month celebration in February, Will Remmert, principal of Washington Elementary School in Mankato,
challenged his 450
students to
read a total of 145,000 minutes outside the classr
read a total of 145,000 minutes outside the classroom.
A curriculum - driven approach means using the limited time we have with
students to engage them with
challenging and enduring texts worth
reading closely and rereading.
This study concluded that «
students who received assignments requiring more
challenging intellectual work also achieved greater than average gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in
reading and mathematics, and demonstrated higher performance in
reading, mathematics, and writing on the Illinois Goals Assessment Program.