The program, modeled on one from The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, uses storytelling and creative drama to help third and
fourth grade students increase essential CCSS critical literacy skills and become storytellers of their own lives.
Not exact matches
Being in
fourth grade for most
students includes celebrating a double - digit birthday for the first time,
increased responsibility, and fractions in math class.
Increasing intake of fruits and vegetables among
fourth and fifth
grade students via serious video game play showed promising results, but more work must be done to ensure children are meeting their recommended intake.
In a Canby
fourth -
grade classroom of sixteen
students, from the fall to mid-year assessment of reading fluency, when average
increase in word count per minute (WCPM) is 12, the average in the iPod classroom was close to 20.
In an Escondido
fourth -
grade class of ten
students, average
increase was 48 WCPM in just six weeks.
Fourth -
grade math scores for these
students both in Texas and in the nation display sharp
increases since 1992 (Figure 9).
Additionally, 66 percent of the district's
fourth -
grade students exceeded the state standard in science — representing a 40 percent
increase from 2003 - 2004.
That is why I worked with the General Assembly this year to
increase funding for early reading intervention services for young readers who need extra help and to require schools to partner with parents in developing plans to help these
students before they are promoted to the
fourth grade.»
For the
fourth -
grade NAEP exam, scores for Arizona charter
students increased an astounding 21 points since the last time the test was given in 2009; scores among eighth -
grade charter
students increased 18 points.
For example, to demonstrate proficiency of the properties of energy, imagine a
fourth grade science task in which
students must construct a solar cooker that
increases the temperature by X degrees through developing prototypes, testing them out, and analyzing and reporting on data.
The grant - funded DREAM initiative trains California third - and
fourth -
grade teachers in arts / literacy practices, and after its first two years of implementation, language arts test scores of
students in these teachers» classrooms
increased by 87 points.
«Over the course of the year, for example, the number of our
fourth -
grade students performing at benchmark
increased by 33 percent.
Thirty - six percent of
fourth -
grade town
students read Below Basic in 2011, a two - point
increase from 2007.
In 2014, only 30 % of
fourth grader
students performed at Basic or Above in ELA; in 2017, 62 % of
fourth grade students performed at Basic or Above, reflecting an
increase of more than 30 percentage points.
Thirty - two percent of
fourth -
grade town
students read Below Basic in 2011, a four percentage point decline from 2011, and a two - point decline since 2007; 33 percent of
fourth - grader town
students were highly literate in 2013, a three percent
increase from both 2011 and 2007.
The percentage of
students scoring proficient and advanced
increased 3.4 points at
fourth grade, 4 points at fifth
grade, 2.7 points at sixth
grade, and 1.6 points at seventh
grade.
There was an
increase in self - reported direct aggression at the 18 months» posttest for the
students in the fifth
grade in the second year of the intervention, but not in the
fourth grade.