Sentences with phrase «upper grades need»

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Reading and talking about nonfiction — not just storybooks — helps younger children learn information and skills that they need for academic success in upper grades.

By the upper grades of high school, students no longer need roles defined for them and are able to jump into group work without guidance.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

But teachers in the upper grades still had to focus on the material from the old standards students needed to pass the ISTEP +.

The strong ninth - grade program identifies and supports students who may otherwise fall off track; the college and career focus in the upper grades provides the relevant learning activities they need to stay on track.

Teachers need more development and support for students in upper grades who struggle with reading.

Instruction in the lower grades needs to lay the foundation for upper grade level work.

It includes a first - time - ever cap on PE class sizes, increased access to electives, additional counseling support and additional social - emotional support at our highest - needs secondary schools, and reduced class sizes in the upper grades at the 55 highest - need elementary schools.

In the upper grades, schools need to assess and diagnose students to find those who are struggling because of poor fluency.

As students enter the upper grades, they will need to interpret similes in context.