Sentences with phrase «average reading age»

A pilot study has helped struggling youngsters in Australia, with participating students achieving an average reading age gain of 15 months in six months.

Two fifths of all prisoners have the average reading age of an 11 - year - old.

Not exact matches

One study in a retirement community, where the median age was 72, indicated that residents watched television an average of six hours a day; this statistic compared with two hours of radio listening, 45 minutes of newspaper reading, one - half hour of magazine reading and a few minutes of book reading.

As we're approaching retirement age, we read that the «average» couple in the USA will need $ 230,000 to $ 400,000 (depending on whose estimate you read) to pay for uncovered medical costs in retirement.

While the average age of the Australian farmer is now 53 (or 56, depending on which report you read), nearly a quarter of all farmers are over 65, compared to only 3 % of the total workforce.

At about the average age of 12 - 18 months, you begin to associate the feeling of fullness with the elimination that...» Read More

The average age for potty training I was reading is closer to 28 - 30 months, and I think maybe we might hit that.

I learned to read after the age of 6 and do it quite well by now (in 2.5 languages mind you), well above average and better than many people my age who learned earlier.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Studies have suggested that the reading age of children in schools under flight paths is below the national average.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

On average, by the age of 16, girls at the school were doing better than boys, even when both sexes had the same reading skills at age 12.

He comments: «Our previous work has shown that children exposed to newborn hearing screening had, on average, better language and reading abilities at age eight years.

All of the children were thought to have below - average reading skills, based on national assessments at the age of seven or their teachers» current judgements.

So, the average age of longevity at 30 many read about is an average of those who died in infancy and those who died naturally of old age.

Trial participants were men and women 35 to 65 years of age who had an average systolic blood pressure of 130 - 159 mmHg and / or diastolic blood pressure of 80 - 99 mmHg based on an average of 9 readings (3 observations at each of 3 screening visits).

«So for example my students, the oldest ones (aged 11 to 14), read an average of 40 books a year and produce an average of between 20 and 25 pieces of writing - really good, polished, publishable pieces of writing, across the school year.

Yes, girls, on average, are more verbally adept at age five, but this difference is not particularly large, and many young boys are as ready to read as the girls sitting next to them.

Table 221.30: Average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scale score and percentage distribution of students, by age, amount of reading for school and for fun, and time spent on homework and watching TV / video: Selected years, 1984 through 2012.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

Mississippi ranks near the bottom among all states in a number of markers including children ages 1 through 5 whose families read to them more than 3 days a week, fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math levels, on - time high - school graduation and average composite ACT scores.

«On average, welfare recipients ages 17 to 21 read at the sixth - grade level, well below what is needed to earn a living wage.

On average, over two - thirds of our fifth graders arrive at Excel reading three or more grade levels below the educational standard for their age - level, and with computation skills that test at two or more grade levels below standard

The survey notes that «individuals age 75 and over averaged 1 hour of reading per weekend day... while individuals ages 15 to 19 read for an average of 7 minutes per weekend day.»

When it comes to book ownership the largest collections were held by the 55 - 64 age group, with an average of... [Read more...]

Most successful books tend to be above average length Non-Fiction titles that are suitable for reading by all genders and all adult age groups.

The most active digital readers are women who are aged 45 and older and they spend on average 30 minutes per day reading on their Kobo e-reader.

In fact, over the past two years, online sales of eBooks have increased across most age groups — along with the proportion of Aussies reading novels or non-fiction titles in an average three - month period.

I was shocked to read that in industrialized countries (like the US), at age sixty, people have lost on average, a third of their teeth.

«The average 25 - to 34 - year old spends exactly six minutes reading every day, and younger age groups are somehow even worse,» Pierce wrote.

Among those who own tablet computers and e-book readers, women read more books than men (23 books on average in the past year vs. 19); whites read more books than minorities (23 books on average in the past year vs. 16); those who have owned the device more than a year read more books than newer purchasers (24 books on average in the past year vs. 20); and those over age 40 have read more books than those under 40 (22 books on average in the past year vs. 19).

And those ages 65 and older who were readers had read the most books, on average.

I decided to review «When Genius Failed,» because reading «While America Aged» reminded me of how much I liked Lowenstein's writing style, simplifying matters for the average reader.

I read recently that the average lifespan of a cocker spaniel was 12 1/2 years, and that was his age.

I read recently (in E. C. Pielou, «After the Ice Age») that toward the end of the last ice age — but long before the glaciers had receded from the continental U.S. — average global temperatures climbed to 2 - 3 degrees Centigrade above those of the modern era, a condition that obviously reversed at some poiAge») that toward the end of the last ice age — but long before the glaciers had receded from the continental U.S. — average global temperatures climbed to 2 - 3 degrees Centigrade above those of the modern era, a condition that obviously reversed at some poiage — but long before the glaciers had receded from the continental U.S. — average global temperatures climbed to 2 - 3 degrees Centigrade above those of the modern era, a condition that obviously reversed at some point.

Did you know that teaching a child to sight - read music between the ages of 3 and 10 will raise that child's IQ by an average of 10 points by the time they are an adult?

The reported stories reflect at least 8 new Ponzi schemes worldwide and an average age of approximately 49 for the alleged... Read More

Students in their law school program tend to be older (average age 38), and the iPad is meant to help them better keep up with readings and study for bar exams.

Mutual of Omaha has great underwriting for those taking a blood pressure medication allowing those ages 18 - 55 an average reading of 135/85 and those over 56 years old a reading of 140/85 to be eligible for the best rate health class, preferred plus.

[Tweet «Recruiters spend an average of six seconds on your resume before deciding if they should read more or move on»] Originally posted on HRinAsia In the internet age, resume writing is still playing catch up.

The average resume gets less than 10 seconds in front of a recruiter, before being cast aside — and that's assuming that a recruiter is reading it at all in an age where automated scanning software is increasingly being used to filter applications by keyword search before a human ever sets eyes on them.

The average deaf school leaver has a reading age equivalent to that of a 9 - year - old hearing child.

A consistent relationship has also been shown with delayed reading age, below average scores on intelligence and achievement tests, conduct disorder of childhood and parental aggressive behaviour.»

Married parents reported reading to children aged 3 - 5 an average of 6.8 times a week, compared to 6 times a week for single parents of children the same age.

Also, I read the other day that the average age of a realtor is 57 and NAR reports their average income is $ 43,500 (as of 2012, source: http://agbeat.com/business-news/realtor-income-rises-25-prepare-for-a-wave-of-n00bs/).