Sentences with phrase «early reading standards»

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Early attempts read the sources selectively in order to adapt Islamic political and social teachings to Western standards.

This translation is more accurate than that in the Revised Standard Version, which reads «circumcision party,» as if there had been such a party in the early church inopposition to an «uncircumcision party.»

You can read early coverage of the kickoff from the Post Standard's Tim Knauss, 5 Questions for Howie Hawkins.

I wrote to you several months ago after reading an earlier article on BPD [«Dangerous Liaisons,» by Ophelia Austin - Small, November / December 2009], indicating that I felt that article was flawed, judgmental and not up to the scientific standards that I have come to expect from your magazine.

At its meeting on Thursday, the California Air Resources Board adopted a regulation that will implement Governor Schwarzenegger's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (earlier post) calling for at least a 10 % reduction from... Read more →

In an order issued 23 January, US District Court Judge Lawrence O'Neill denied a motion filed by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to stay the injunction on the enforcement of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) he had ordered in the earlier decisions of 29 December 2011 while ARB... Read more →

A status review of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)(earlier post) for the period of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by Dr. Sonia Yeh at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and Julie Witcover found that regulated parties in the LCFS — i.e., oil producers and importers to... Read more →

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

It's ironic: Education reformers are so united behind the Common Core standards, and yet 1) those very standards explicitly endorse scientifically based reading instruction, and 2) the focus on the importance of «reading complex text» appears to come at the expense of early reading instruction.

Under the shift to Common Core standards, reading programs are explicitly expected to teach strong foundational skills, including phonics in the early grades, while building background knowledge and vocabulary, which are especially important for low - income children most at risk of reading failure.

Another example: Standard 2 on «Early Reading» assesses whether «The program trains teacher candidates to teach reading as prescribed by the Common Core State Standards.Reading» assesses whether «The program trains teacher candidates to teach reading as prescribed by the Common Core State Standards.reading as prescribed by the Common Core State Standards.»

The only «strong research» they cite in support of the «Early Reading» standard examines whether teachers are familiar with the «five components of effective reading instruction,» and whether teachers who are certified and have masters degrees are more likely to know those five compReading» standard examines whether teachers are familiar with the «five components of effective reading instruction,» and whether teachers who are certified and have masters degrees are more likely to know those five compreading instruction,» and whether teachers who are certified and have masters degrees are more likely to know those five components.

The initial test - score gaps for Hispanic students in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data were even greater than for blacks — 0.72 standard deviations in math and 0.43 standard deviations in reading.

Indeed, as early as February 2009 (registration required to read this and the next article) U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stated that he was contemplating using «stimulus» dollars to drive adoption of national standards, and the CCSSI didn't even formally launch until April of that year.

Both of our sons were having trouble mastering the complexities of reading — and amid current, fast - moving standards for the early elementary grades, that meant lots of really boring remedial work.

At the state level, there was a virtual firestorm of legislation focused on early reading that included new curriculum frameworks and standards, assessment mandates, textbook adoption guidelines, and mandates for teacher credentialing and professional development.

Wixson and Dutro (in press) conducted a document analysis of 42 state standards in early reading / language arts as a way to gauge how the variability in standards might influence their translation into local curriculum, instruction and assessment.

«It was a big mind shift to go from the standard read - aloud to independent practice,» says Eileen Burkholder, one of the early literacy coaches and now a district elementary school principal.

But according to Schoales, «those [early literacy] tests don't line up with what the district and the state have said is standard in terms of kids» reading and writing.»

GELDS (Georgia Early Learning & Development Standards): CLL6.4 f (This sound - symbol association reading activity exceeds the GELDS CLL standards.)

Merryl H. Tisch, chancellor of the state's Board of Regents, said she believed that early gains would continue to evaporate by middle school until the state raised standards and put in place a curriculum that emphasized reading for context and developing thinking skills.

With all the discussion about deeper learning, college - and career - ready standards, and the latest research on assessments, assignments, and instruction, it turns out that what many principals prescribe to chart a new course for meaningful literacy instruction is engaging readers and fostering a love of reading from an early age.

Recently, experts at the organization Defending the Early Years issued a report focusing on one of these bad standards: the standard calling for kindergartners to «read emergent - reader texts with purpose and understanding.»

However, if research consensus exists around certain content in early reading, then that content needs to be reflected in state standards.

Identifying subject matter criteria for the content analysis of early reading / language arts standards was difficult.

This report analyzes state standards for early reading / language arts from two perspectives — what we know about standards and what we know about early reading.

As a starting point for thinking about the relationship between standards and reading acquisition, we focus here on an analysis of the nature and content of early reading / language arts standards.

Our examination of both the content coverage represented in state standards documents and the appropriateness of their content serves to demonstrate this variability and to explore some of the potential consequences of that variation, both positive and negative, for children's early reading achievement.

Attention to these issues is manifest in many ways, including the development of state standards aimed at promoting early reading acquisition.

We present our analyses of state standards for early reading / language arts first, with a summary of findings related to the CCSSO specificity criterion.

The content criteria developed for this analysis can be used to evaluate and / or develop standards for early reading / language arts standards, and can also serve as a model for the development of content criteria for English language arts standards at other developmental levels.

The content of early reading / language arts standards and benchmarks should derive from a convergence of information from research conducted from a variety of perspectives, including research on reading acquisition among linguistically and culturally diverse children.

The government is determined to raise the standard of reading in the first years of primary school so that children can master the basic decoding skills of reading early and then spend the rest of primary school reading to learn.

We serve millions of students with i - Ready ® (adaptive diagnostic, online instruction, and practice apps for math and reading); Ready ® (standards - based instruction build from scratch for the Common Core); BRIGANCE ® (assessment and instruction for special education, early childhood, and Head Start); and other programs because of our laser focus on educators» needs over our own bottom line and a belief that thoughtful and continuous innovation leads to a positive impact on classrooms and measureable growth for students.

Only by gleaning and synthesizing the content criteria from research across perspectives can we begin to have substantive conversations about the impact of standards on children's early success in reading.

The report examines alignment of standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment; early childhood and kindergarten; identification, intervention and retention; and teacher preparation and training for reading instruction.

For young students to build content knowledge, as required by the standards, they will need to hear texts read aloud because the texts they can read for themselves in early grades rarely contain as much content as books they can listen to and comprehend.

The criteria used by Wixson and Dutro for this analysis should be useful to districts in evaluating their states» standards for early reading / language arts.

Just as the texts students can read themselves in the earliest grades can not develop background knowledge, they do not offer enough depth or variety to be used for achieving the standards.

However, the state's standards for early childhood education teachers address the components of the science of reading instruction.

Earlier setbacks had taught proponents to stay away from history or social studies, to avoid identifying which books or authors students should read, and to cling to the safe ground of «skill - based» standards.

Regarding struggling readers, early childhood education standards require that a teacher «uses the results of literacy assessments to adjust and / or target instruction, to flexibly group children, when needed, and to appropriately match children with reading material.»

They include investing more in excellent teacher pre-service training, in early - childhood education, in after - school and summer programs, in improved student health and nutrition programs in and out of schools, and in implementing high standards in math, reading and science curriculums.

Critics on the left have taken issue with a number of things surrounding the standards (you can read a post about eight problems with the Core here), saying that there was not enough input from educators into the drafting of the Core, that the standards are not based on any research, that they ignore what is known about early childhood development and much more.

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Brooke Newberry (early literacy librarian, LaCrosse [Wisc.] Public Library), Stephanie C. Prato (head of children's services, Simsbury [Conn.] Public Library), and Mary Schreiber (youth collection development specialist, Cuyahoga County [Ohio] Public Library) set out to clarify the revised standards for the under - 18 months, 18 — 24 months, and 2 — 5 years groups, and provide actionable tips in an... Continue reading Digital Media Recommendations for Our Youngest Patrons →