Sentences with phrase «below grade level a student»

These tests have little or no content to determine just how far above or below grade level a student might be.

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Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

But at Success Academy Harlem 4, one boy's struggles were there for all to see: On two colored charts in the hallway, where the students» performance on weekly spelling and math quizzes was tracked, his name was at the bottom, in a red zone denoting that he was below grade level.

«While binge drinking among eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students remains well below the levels seen a decade ago, the downward trend in binge drinking appears to have slowed somewhat in recent years,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

More recently ~ I worked with a fifth - grade student that would go in the corner and shake whenever he had to write an essay ~ which he felt was below his intellectual level.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

The sites below provide problems and activities for students at more than one grade or skill level.

Statewide, more than three quarters of 4th graders read below grade level, the same share of 8th graders are below grade level in math, and nearly one third of high - school students drop out.

«I learn better because the online curriculum actually reads to you,» says Kierre Hardin, who, like many VOISE students, entered his freshman year testing below the fifth - grade level in reading.

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

Teachers also plan to use a tool designed to assess the reading fluency of primary students with below - level readers in grades 4 - 6 to see how their needs can be addressed, said Poplar.

Click on a grade level folder below to find worksheets that you can use with your students to build a variety of skills.

Among entering students, about 15 to 20 percent perform above grade level, about 15 to 20 percent below; the rest are in the middle, said Grover.

Over half of poor and minority students have reading and math skills far below grade level, whether measured by the tough performance standards of the NAEP or by the standards of the various states.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

Altogether, roughly 40 percent of the 3rd - grade students who scored below the Level - 2 threshold in 2002 — 03 were promoted.

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.

One that I describe in my review is Davis Guggenheim's claim that 70 percent of 8th grade students read «below grade level.»

This reading kit is designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level...

If the puzzle is too easy or difficult for your students, see instructions below for adapting the «Anagram Family Time» activity for your grade level.

As a teacher, I often felt encouraged — tacitly and sometimes overtly — to focus my energies on my students who were below grade level.

They are being punished for serving students who are coming to them way, way below grade level.

If this puzzle is too easy or difficult for your students, see the instructions below for adapting the «It All Adds Up» activity for your grade level.

Since 2004, the Jenks Public Schools has tracked the number of students entering first grade whose reading skills are below grade level.

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

«When you've got a majority of students reading three to five grade levels below where they should be, a population of kids who aren't motivated, for whom homework isn't important and grades don't matter, you've got to try a new way of doing things.»

All of the results reported below are based on analyses that control for student grade level, gender, and minority status, and compare students only within each matched grouping, while taking into account the fact that students within a given group are likely to be similar in ways that we are unable to observe.

The students, almost all African American, more than 80 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, came with skill levels all over the map; a majority read at a 5th - grade level or below.

When she needs a review for a student who is performing below grade level, Alley no longer purchases a resource book — she hops on the Net and prints a skill page specifically for the child!

Begin the lesson by displaying the sentence below either on a projector or a chalkboard: (Note: Choose any sentence that's appropriate to your students» grade and ability level.)

Q: What are the most effective strategies to help students whose reading is significantly below grade level?

He pointed out that most of his students start two or three grade averages below their current grade level.

For over 20 years, Esquith has taught fifth grade at the Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Los Angeles, where many students begin school unable to speak English, all students receive free lunch, and 92 percent live below the national poverty level.

Mismatched textbooks and an absence of support for students who read well above or below grade level have negative effects!

In the program, students who fall below college - level standards on math assessment tests in 11th grade are guided to remedial courses during their senior year in high school, which allows them to start their higher ed career ready for credit bearing coursework.

Do you promote a student who is below grade level, but who might drop out if held back?

Many years ago, in my third year as a public school teacher, I discovered that about half of my 7th - grade students read four or more years below grade level, and about half read four or more years above grade level.

DiGisi also meets with two groups of seventh - and eighth - grade students who read below grade level.

Teachers currently have students who read several grades above and below grade level in the same classroom and most feel that they are not able to effectively differentiate instruction for students of all levels of achievement.

But these standards do not by themselves necessarily account for the gains in achievement by all demographic groups and by our regional vocational / technical high schools (which enroll a disproportionate number of special education students and below - grade level readers).

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

I'm not a gambling person, but if I had to place a bet on one sure - fire method for engaging students, increasing test scores, reaching students who fall below standards, challenging students who exceed grade - level standards, accessing students» creativity and originality, maximizing brain connections formed, applying concepts to new situations, and making the learning process more fun for the students and teacher, I would place that bet on... teaching the core curriculum through the arts.

(The smallest decile of schools would have received an even larger share of the assistance teams, except for a rule requiring that the proportion of students scoring below grade level be statistically significantly less than 50 percent.)

Conversely, a student attending a chronically underperforming school is not necessarily achieving below grade level.

In the year before assignment, such schools had an average 4th grade combined reading and math test score that was.67 student - level standard deviations below the average school.

School districts would be required to tailor individual plans to help students who were reading below grade level.