Sentences with phrase «by the end of third grade»

The Campaign focuses on an important predictor of school success and high school graduation — grade - level reading by the end of third grade.

By utilizing specialized assessment and intervention tools, the project emphasizes working toward every child being able to read on grade level by the end of their third grade year.

Children who are proficient readers by the end of third grade are more likely to graduate from high school and to be economically successful in adulthood.

Reading proficiency by the end of third grade is a critical benchmark in a child's educational development.

Academic success, as defined by high school graduation, can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by knowing someone's reading skills by the end of third grade.

We want to ensure that, through personalized diagnosis and interventions, every child learns to read well enough by the end of third grade so that they can subsequently read to learn.

High - quality early learning puts children on a path toward kindergarten readiness and proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of third grade.

Why reading by the end of third grade matters.

Children in the delayed group entered kindergarten with higher reading and mathematics scores, yet achievement differences were negligible by the end of third grade.

The goal is to help children read at grade level by the end of third grade.

Reading proficiency by the end of third grade... can be a make - or - break benchmark in a child's educational development.

The programs, created and funded by the legislature, support specific recommendations to ensure that all students have strong literacy skills by the end of third grade.

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade.

About 16 % of children who are not reading proficiently by the end of third grade do not graduate from high school on time — a rate four times greater than that for proficient readers.

That's why there is so much attention on 3rd grade reading scores in our community and across the nation because if children are not on track by the end of third grade, their chances for success decrease substantially.

(Observe what a big deal it is when a state insists that children must be able, say, to read by the end of third grade in order to move on to fourth.)

States, schools and educators must help each student learn to read by the end of third grade as soon as possible.

This is why I am so encouraged that 36 states are committed to making sure that every child in this nation can read well and independently by the end of the third grade if not earlier.

The intent of the comprehensive K - 3 reading policy is simple: ensure by the end of third grade that students have mastered the reading skills necessary to transition from learning to read to reading to learn in fourth grade.

«It is essential that our students master the basics of reading English by the end of third grade,» says President Clinton.

PBS NewsHour looks into the impact of legislation passed in Ohio two years ago that promised to hold students back who can not pass the state's reading test by the end of third grade.

According to Carroll, Davies, and Richman (1971) and Adams (1990), children will be expected to recognize and know well over 80,000 different words by the end of third grade.

Despite initial gains, children who attended Tennessee's preschool program were doing no better than their peers by the end of third grade, according to the latest results of a multi-year study.

(Mich.) In order to improve literacy rates statewide, students will be held back if they are not at or near reading proficiency by the end of third grade under a bill passed by the Michigan legislature last week.

Objective: To help students develop intoproficient readers by the end of third grade through strong classroominstruction and appropriate support.

Those who do not learn to read proficiently by the end of third grade face «daunting hurdles to success in school and beyond.»

It requires schools to provide cursive instruction by the end of the third grade.

Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters to focus attention on the critical importance of achieving grade - level reading proficiency for all children by the end of third grade.

Instead, we should spend education dollars on early childhood programs and family interventions that ensure that all students have the oral language skills, pre-literacy behaviors, and educational experiences to enable them to read fluently by the end of third grade.

It is paramount that students read proficiently by the end of third grade so they are prepared for later learning.

With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.

Through Reading First, states and districts receive support to apply scientifically based reading research — and the proven instructional and assessment tools consistent with this research — to ensure that all children learn to read well by the end of third grade.

The benefits of reading are clear: If students aren't proficient readers by the end of third grade, they're less likely to succeed academically and graduate from high school (Fiester, 2013).

The researchers theorize that sustaining pre-k gains, optimizing learning in K — 3 (regardless of pre-k experiences), and acquiring excellent academic, cognitive, and social - emotional skills by the end of third grade will depend on which skills have been targeted and how.

Ensuring that Kentucky's young children benefit from high quality early learning that keeps each and every child on a path toward proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of third grade

«Early - grade teachers are working extremely hard to get students reading on track by the end of third grade, and we are very pleased to be able to support them with these resources,» Johnson said Thursday.

The word «chronic absence» was coined in 2008 by Hedy Chang, who published research on whether or not missing school in early grades correlated to low reading proficiency by the end of third grade.

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«But by the end of third grade they are scoring above the national average in reading, math, and science.»

«We are excited to support the launch of Reach Every Reader, a unique combination of cutting - edge education and neuroscience research to better understand how we can help every kid stay on track to reading on grade level by the end of third grade.

Under the new system, grades one through three are measured against a goal of reading by the end of third grade; grades four through six on proficient or advanced performance on the English and math portions of a state test indicating middle school readiness; seven, eight, and nine on high school readiness with passing all ninth - grade; grades 10, 11, and 12 focus on the goal of high school graduation.

«Saying that they're at risk for not reading by the end of third grade is really meaningful to the educators working in the building.»

Perhaps the most pressing is that a quarter of the state's students are not reading proficiently by the end of third grade.

Once we have this information, we'll focus on the big picture and ask states questions such as: Are more students reading by the end of the third grade?

And it could thwart early education initiatives aimed at getting all children ready for kindergarten and broader efforts to ensure every child masters reading by the end of third grade.

This, it was widely believed, was the recipe for helping children in general, and low - income students in particular, to achieve «grade - level reading» by the end of the third grade.

Given the crucial importance of early school readiness, RFF has also set the goal that, by 2020, 85 % of students will read at grade level by the end of third grade.

Among those goals are children prepared to start kindergarten, students performing at grade level by the end of the third grade, making sure students are prepared for a high school curriculum and on track to graduate once they start.