Sentences with phrase «complex language skills»

«A child from a family with high educational attainment talks to a child using complex language skills frequently, thus children acquire oral language skills at an advanced rate,» she said.

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A fatty outer coating for our trillions of nerve fibres, myelin is thought by some to be the key to our ability to develop complex skills like language.

Eight - year - olds will also be able to think more critically and express opinions using more complex and sophisticated vocabulary and language skills.

This strengthens the memory of the young child and also the child's ability to put complex language in context — setting up a beginning of advanced comprehension skills.

«The ability to rapidly share the skill to make Oldowan tools would have brought fitness benefits» to early humans, Morgan says, such as greater efficiency in butchering animals; and then Darwinian natural selection would have acted to gradually improve primitive language abilities, eventually leading from protolanguage to the full - blown, semantically complex languages we speak today.

As Spelke sees it, these cognitive tools underlie all the more complex skills and knowledge we master as we grow up — spoken languages, number manipulation and other abstract mental operations.

Those Nicaraguans with complex sign language skills were more likely to choose the first picture — indicating an understanding of false belief — than were those with less developed language skills.

It's not clear, though, that removing Lynx1 would necessarily spell happy times for learning complex skills and languages.

The ability to develop these skills has often been attributed to the prior acquisition of a complex language.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (which are skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

Right from the beginning Sally Hawkins is given fantastic on - screen partners in Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer that jive well with her phenomenal performance built solely on hand gestures and body language (Jenkins makes a fine best friend working on his career as a painter, while Spencer's motormouth skills and sassy banter make conversations amusing and easily involving), but as she notices the creature being housed in isolation inside a large rectangular pool (referred to as The Asset) at the laboratory, things get complex and become transfixing.

«Reading comprehension is a very complex process that draws mainly upon one's oral language skills,» says Lesaux.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Keiffer, who won the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship last year, also received an 2010 Exemplary Dissertation Award for his dissertation, The Development of Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in Adolescent Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates, which examines two specific English skills considered to be important in LM learners» language development during early adolescence - morphological awareness (i.e., understanding of complex words as combinations of meaningful units) and vocabulary knowledge (i.e., knowledge of word meanings).

Instruction that expands the language skills required for increasingly complex academic writing is sorely needed.

With Günther Fink from the Harvard [T.H. Chan] School of Public Health, I've developed a new measure for the 0 — 3 age range that uses caregivers» reports of children's motor, language, cognitive, social, and emotional skills to capture these complex processes in fast, cost - effective ways.

These engaging and effective texts carefully scaffold students up a gradual staircase of text complexity to build the foundational skills they need to access complex text in their native language.

However, as frightening as the conditions are currently, I can tell you that I personally know many educators who take this moment to reignite their fire for teaching, for leading, for making sure that students have the language skills to navigate themselves and their families through these complex times.

The basic comprehension strategies that children build out of oral language skills in kindergarten and first grade become more complex in second grade and beyond.

TARGET SKILLS Tiering language from familiar to sophisticated vocabulary Constructing complex sentences that include Tier 2 vocabulary Construct simple and complex sentences Recognize all parts of speech Study verb inflection and tense Identify subjects and predicates Use adjectives and adverbs to expand meaning Practice punctuation INCLUDES Set of Reading Rods Sentence - Construction cubes Vocabulary Reading Rods Sentence - Construction Activity Flipbook Set of Vocabulary Activity Cards 2 Instructional guides VersaTote storage center 2 VersaTote storage containers

TARGET SKILLS Tiering language from familiar to sophisticated vocabulary Constructing complex sentences that include Tier 2 vocabulary Construct simple and complex sentences Recognize all parts of speech Study verb inflection and tense Identify subjects and predicates Use adjectives and adverbs to expand meaning Practice punctuation INCLUDES 3 Reading Rods Sentence - Construction Kits 2 Reading Rods Vocabulary Kits Instructional guides 3 Sentence - Construction Activity Flipbooks 2 Sets of Vocabulary Activity Cards 5 Reading Rods Activity Trays 5 VersaTote storage containers Sentence - Construction Teacher's Resource Guide

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

A variety of the key reading, writing and math support functions include vocabulary list builder, talking and picture dictionaries, talking word and paragraph translation, text - to - speech in multiple languages, accurate read aloud of complex math equations and study skills annotation tools.

The focus of the Knowledge and Practice Standards is the structure of language and its component systems, their connections to design and delivery of instruction, and the complex nature of skilled reading.

For teachers, it's a research - based, standards - aligned program that that complements your core ELA curriculum by building foundational reading skills — language, decoding, comprehension — along an adaptive pathway of increasingly complex texts.

Content is presented at a controlled pace that ensures students have the requisite skills and knowledge to master increasingly complex reading and language arts content.

The test is complex and aims to gauge their skills across arrange of fields: English language, grammar and formatting accuracy.

Communication skills: You must work on your written and oral communication skills as large companies prefer recruiting those candidates who hold a firm grip on the English language and understand the complex industry terms.

Accompanying the film is a web project in which users can chat with a character from the film named Ruby — the chat bot's programming allows it to develop its own language skills, using more complex constructions, learning from each user interaction.

• excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex legal concepts in plain, simple and easily understood language.

Intimately familiar with the process of writing federal resumes for thousands of military members, I soon found that many of my students found it difficult and very complex to translate military job skills» language into civilian job terminology.

Like insurance and risk, financial planning is a people profession, so strong communication skills are needed, along with commercial awareness and the ability to translate often complex financial data into simple language for your clients.

Examples like this can become even more serious when it comes to complex programming languages or other technical capabilities that result in an expensive learning curve and significant loss of productivity should an organization hire an individual who has overstated their technical skills.

Describing complex skills and results can't be done with 7th grade language.

• Apt at using shorthand, stenotype machine and audio based transcribers to take down verbatim • In - depth knowledge of common medical terminology and profound ability to use the same effectively in order to communicate case details • Strong organizational skills, proven ability to collect and compile all medical data needed for patient case formulation and filing • Particularly effective in simplifying medical jargons and expanding medical abbreviations to produce easily comprehendible data for case compilation and processing • Efficient in identifying errors in given text and correcting the same • Excellent collaboration and coordination skills, proven ability to collect data regarding patient case from all relevant departments and assemble the same in the patients» medical record file • Expert in transcribing clinical dictations and getting the same analyzed and verified by concerned medical practitioner • Excellent time management skills with track record of delivering timely case reports for case follow up and educational purposes • Attentive listener with proven ability to follow instructions to book, thus ensuring error free delivery of assignments • Computer literate with strong PC operation skills and profound knowledge of various data recording software • Profound ability to categorize different types of content according to the area of specialization to facilitate data identification and retrieval • Strong language skills, full command on generating transcribed content free of grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors • Highly capable of producing accurate data in printed form based on dictations and audio recording by surgeons and healthcare providers • Well versed in verifying given text against an audio verbatim to ensure its accuracy and correctness • Fully knowledgeable of data confidentiality protocols applicable to transcribed data • Proficient in interpreting and rectifying data discrepancies in medical content • Excellent knowledge of basic physiology and anatomy • Strong expertise in comprehending complex procedures carried out in the operating room • Effective listening skills with strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy

It touches on both his ability to explain complex math concepts and ability to utilize a variety of different engaging methods, as well as his language and interpersonal skills.

Because of the complex nature of many IT projects and the potentially long list of skills and software languages, it might be tempting to let your resume go to three or even four pages, but don't do it.

Demonstrated history of applying technical knowledge and project management skills to complex language - related situations, while providing high - quality team collaboration and facilitating effective issue resolution.

It is important to lay good foundations of safety before expecting a baby to develop more complex cognitive skills such as language.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.