Sentences with phrase «by fifth grade»

I consumed Greek myth like it was going out of style, and started reading books on comparative religion by the fifth grade.

It found that children who spent time in «high quality» daycare centers as youngsters had better vocabulary by the fifth grade than those who hadn't.

But even though research shows that 40 percent of children have cell phones by fifth grade, the researchers said not as much was known about the effects of technology on a younger population.

By second grade, 35 percent will drop out; that number jumps to 65 percent by the fifth grade.

As students become proficient in basic academic skills by fifth grade, the sixth through eighth grade academic program provides students with more challenging skills and a more content - rich curriculum.

Even then, the improvements were incremental, and they were diminished by fifth grade.

As many as 83 percent of kids in America have been punished physically by their parents by the fifth grade, according to Liz Gershoff, Ph.D..

In counties that received an average Smart Start funding allocation, a child's chance of being retained by fifth grade declined by 13 percent.

Students are immersed in a project - based STEAM curriculum and choose a major to focus on in their education by fifth grade.

English is introduced gradually into the curriculum, and all students receive high - quality instruction centered on academic success through the integration of the Spanish and English language instruction with the goal for students to become bi-literate by fifth grade.

A study of two of California's largest school districts, Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified, found that English Learner students who were determined to be proficient in English (reclassified) by the fifth grade did as well or better than native English speakers on state standardized tests.

Students who attend public schools now must learn to divide and multiply fractions by fifth grade, according to federal guidelines known as the Common Core Standards that are followed in most states.

They state that they did not follow children in this study past kindergarten, even though they acknowledge that previous preschool studies find that many effects fade by fifth grade.

Cherry trees in full bloom line the entrance walkway, and a full - size rowboat built by fifth grade students welcomes visitors to the school.

Using administrative data on North Carolina public school students to corroborate earlier surveys that document broad racial and socioeconomic gaps in home computer access and use, the authors compared the children's reading and math scores before and after they acquired a home computer, and compared these scores to those of peers who had a home computer by fifth grade and to test scores of students who never acquired a home computer.

But, it is also true that roughly by fifth grade, these same children in bilingual education are likely to read as well or better in English than those in English - only programs.

By fifth grade, I no longer had significant difficulties with reading, writing, spelling and math.

By fifth grade, children study Native Americans and the Civil War and must make meaning out of horrific historic events.

By fifth grade, my students will hopefully be better at doing research because they will understand why it's not OK to copy, and they will have the skills to avoid doing it themselves.

All students receive increased amounts of English instruction each school year so that by the fifth grade, students spend half of their day in Spanish instruction and the other half in English instruction.

By fifth grade, for example, students who now do very little in the way of challenging writing assignments will be required to produce essays in which they introduce, support and defend arguments, using specific details.

By fifth grade, these students were reading as well as their monolingual peers in the grade above them, according to the study conducted by George Mason University researchers.

The loss is cumulative so that by the fifth grade, these young people are two years behind their peers.

In fourth grade, overnight camping trips began and by fifth grade, so did college trips.

Walberg notes that «by fifth grade, the worst Japanese classes exceed the best American classes.»

By the fifth grade she was selling erotic drawings to classmates for a quarter.

By fifth grade it escalated.