Sentences with phrase «equivalent reading level»

In first grade, her daughter tested at a grade - equivalent reading level of beginning kindergarten.

We had a first grader who had a grade - equivalent reading level of beginning kindergarten in September and by March she was up to 1.2 — a gain of one year and two months.

Not exact matches

You don't need to get a degree (you'll have the equivalent just raising your child), but by reading some good material on the subject you can begin to see where your child's development level is and have an idea what kinds of toys the child would enjoy playing with.

Some may believe that publication in Big - Time Science is equivalent to two or three society - level articles, but the most important thing is to get your work out there where people can see it by publishing regularly in journals that are widely respected, read, and cited by your peers.

For students with severe or «high» astigmatism, getting and wearing glasses may bring an improvement in reading fluency equivalent to one - half grade level, according to the report by Erin M. Harvey, PhD, and colleagues of The University of Arizona, Tucson.

Drawing on data collected between autumn 2011 and spring 2015, annual increases in reading, writing and maths amongst schools participating in the Achievement for All programme were notably above the expected level of progress (equivalent to 3.0 APS for KS2, and 3.6 APS for secondary schools — see notes to editors).

Using the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) as our measure, we found some states had raised the achievement of economically disadvantaged students the equivalent of a full grade level or more in just eight years, 2003 - 2008 — this at grades four and eight and in reading and math.

A change in the historical Catholic population share that produces a 10 - percentage - point increase in the extent of contemporary private school competition generates an improvement of about 5.5 percent of a standard deviation in both science and reading — or more than one - fifth of a grade - level equivalent in these subjects.

They were also 65 percent of a grade - level equivalent ahead in reading (see Figure 1).

After the student completes the assessment the teacher can quickly access reports that provide valuable information including the student's grade equivalent, estimated oral fluency, instructional reading level, etc..

The floor target is set to increase further in future, with 85 per cent of pupils required to reach the equivalent of the higher level of 4b in reading, writing and maths from 2016.

The gains for DC charter high schools weren't statistically significant, but at the national level high schools provided their students with the equivalent of 32 additional days of learning in math and only 9 in reading.

Why, just a few months ago, my state, Michigan, passed a Third Grade Reading Law that requires the retention of third graders who are more than one year behind in reading as measured by the state test (which doesn't report a grade level equivalent, so who knows how that's going toReading Law that requires the retention of third graders who are more than one year behind in reading as measured by the state test (which doesn't report a grade level equivalent, so who knows how that's going toreading as measured by the state test (which doesn't report a grade level equivalent, so who knows how that's going to work).

Shortly after our visit, Riverside decided to stop providing CPS with grade - equivalent score labels which CPS used to make the political claim that flunked students were simply reading or doing math «below grade level.»

Fallback chains — an optional means for defining an ordered list of top - level resources that can be considered content equivalents that a Reading System can choose between for rendering.

Normal levels of blood pressure in dogs is defined as a reading of that is roughly equivalent to humans or around 108.

When I play a game I like to really get into it and blast through the story all at once, I love games with lots of content that I can pour hours into so a game coming out that is almost the equivalent of a demo is a depressing idea to me, unless I've read it wrong it's just one level right?

«(ii) has emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level in the definition of covered entity in paragraph (13) of section 700, provided that the figure of 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent is read instead as 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent and the figure of 460,000,000 cubic feet is read instead as 184,000,000 cubic feet;

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