Sentences with phrase «critical precursor»

The federal effort to bolster emergent literacy skills has yielded some improvement in preschoolers» knowledge of letters and understanding of print concepts, but has had little effect on other skills deemed critical precursors to reading, an evaluation released last week by the Institute of Education Sciences concludes.

Obtaining a patent is not a bad idea but the fixation on the goal sometimes leads inventors to skip the critical precursor step of conducting a thorough patent search.

Numerous researchers have established that phonological awareness is a critical precursor, correlate, and predictor of reading achievement (Bryant, MacLean, & Bradley, 1990; Cronin & Carver, 1998; Speece, Roth, Cooper, & de la Paz, 1999; Stanovich, 1992; Vellutino & Scanlon, 2001; Wagner, Torgesen, Laughon, Simmons, & Rashotte, 1993; Wagner et al., 1997).

And because eating is a critical precursor to sleeping, the lodge's restaurant has been described as one of the country's finest new - generation dining establishments.

In contrast to their socio - critical precursors, the Funk Art artists, and they included Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Viola Frey and Bruce Conner, did not focus on the surrounding world in their art work, but instead on their own sensitivities.

(7) He considered drawing a critical precursor to painting, yet his emphasis on color, rather than perspective, as a determiner of space within a picture plane, lay at the heart of his ideas about art.

Without a doubt, knowledge and awareness are critical precursors to action.

Connecting and reflecting are critical precursors to change, but change is actually measured in action.