Sentences with phrase «gave him the language skills»

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The new software gives ministers a fighting chance to maintain or improve their skills in biblical languages.

School experiences of success are important here, since they give a child a sense of budding competence in language, math, and thinking skills which are essential to subsequent school success and to adequate adult functioning.

Your English - language skills and high school diploma give you more options than mom and dad have, but far fewer than credentialed professionals and their kids.

The researchers gave the babies standard tests of language skills and other developmental milestones every three months during their first year.

Give your child lots of time while interacting with him and reinforcing language, and you'll begin to see some of the more common verbal skills such as:

Given that poor communication skills are strongly correlated with violent behaviour in men, it seems likely that a father with poor language skills will be more likely to act violently towards both his partner and his children; or for family interactions to be less productive and pleasant.

However, this fun activity will give your child that special feeling of having a job to do while building vocabulary and oral language skills.

Not only does this give you plenty of social interaction, it also helps build motor skills and language.

I also have a newsletter called The Whole Child to which you can subscribe in which I give ideas for activities to do at home with small kiddies to develop different skills - gross motor, fine motor, language, visual skills etc....

If it helps put it in perspective, think of all the new and scary times you've had where you were equipped with the coping skills of an adolescent or adult — a new job, a new relationship, learning a new language, giving a speech, taking a driver's test.

Sharing books, songs and rhymes with your baby every day gives your child what he needs most — time to create a loving bond with you while developing the language skills and building the brain connections necessary for eventual reading success.

With his or her improved language and social skills, your child can become an active participant at mealtimes if given the chance to eat with everyone else.

You'll give Bowzer attention and build Baby's language skills too.

And that there is this immense potential in them and that they will only develop all these skills if they're given proper language, if humanity is modeled properly to them.

The private or third sector groups which would run job centres under a Tory administration would then be given a larger financial reward for finding those with poor language skills employment.

Of course, giving a brief, clear, compelling lay - language synopsis of one's research is not a skill that comes naturally to most scientists.

An evaluator gave each baby a widely used test — the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development — that measures cognitive, language, and motor skills.

«The ideal solution would be to measure their skills in their first language to gauge whether the issue is from lack of exposure to English or a general language impairment, but that isn't feasible given the diversity of home languages spoken by children in the UK.

A variant of the gene that allowed additional cell divisions, Lahn surmises, gave some hominids the additional neural infrastructure that eventually let them develop abstract reasoning and language skills.

The volunteers will undergo these tests after each session of Mozart:» [They] will give us an idea as to the listening skills of each participant in terms of the language being learned and allow us to chart their progress,» Cristina Pérez of the UPV tells us.

Our brains and chimps» are built differently in the areas that give us our language and social skills.

However, in addition to their very extroverted natures, as adults Williams patients also possess unusually adept language skills given their level of general cognitive abilities.

I haven't given a presentation in Poland since the second grade, so as you can imagine, my language skills were a little rusty!

Joining a sports team, Taking cooking classes, or learning a foreign language, for example, gives a new skill and provides the opportunity to share the learning process and so have something in common with a group of diverse people, many of whom would no doubt be single and also hopeful of meeting someone nice.

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.

Brain Games also give teachers specific language to use when talking with students about these skills (referred to as «Brain Powers»), including questions that will encourage metacognition and improve children's internalization and transfer of skills.

Next year, we're going to be on a schedule that will give us ample time in language skills and in math to make sure we're teaching what we need to be doing and having the students on track for where they need to be.

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This gives them a chance to exercise listening skills and stay in a target language mindset.

These artists give excellent opportunities to discuss composition; where the whole picture is filled with foliage, to compare the observational skills of the artists; to express preferences and extend the use of artistic language and vocabulary.

For instance, many schools have trouble giving struggling students or English language learners as much individualized attention as they need when it comes to writing and reading skills.

Every student would start her / his comment by saying, «I would like to make a text - to - text connection, or I would like to make a text - to - self connection...» It was clear that these young children had been taught this analysis skill; they had been given a strategy and language to go deeper in the text — and this an age where children are still learning to read.

Creative writing is a great way to improve your children's written language skills while giving them a fun and imaginative activity during the summer!

«The ideal solution would be to measure their skills in their first language to gauge whether the issue is from lack of exposure to English or an underlying language impairment, but that isn't feasible given the diversity of home languages spoken by children in the UK.

«Reading is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the Reading Challenge is opening up a world of adventure and fun for young people as well as giving them vital literacy and language skills.»

Participants take two years of English - language acquisition, and then they can continue with either occupational skills courses or GED and college - entrance exam - preparation classes, giving them a variety of opportunities for postsecondary education.

CloudProfessor helps students hone their coding skills by giving them the option of working with a variety of programming languages.

Some schools use scripted reading or math programs, which give direct teachers to use precise language to introduce a concept or skill, then an activity.

Since 2008 - 09 they have gradually developed their early learning success initiative, beginning with a focus on reducing the scope of content, teaching children at their level of readiness, giving some children more time to learn, and building a solid foundation of language, motor and social skills.

A weekly news service, giving pupils the chance to discuss and debate current events, thus developing spoken language skills and providing meaningful context for writing.

ELLs should be given numerous opportunities to develop oral language before and during their development of literacy skills.

Major sticking points included evaluating how much weight should be given to scores attained from language arts and math tests on the state's Assessment of Skills and Knowledge for fourth through eighth grades, and the High School Proficiency Assessment.

A reconceptualization of the law would seek to develop testing that also measures relative gains so that a school can be given credit for substantially improving an immigrant's language skills rather than being penalized when compared to an average.

Information on each resource gives details such as who it could be used by and for, language focus, skills addressed, and suggestions for use.

Studying and practicing dance improves reading readiness, and music gives context for teaching language skills.

The future teachers appreciated the students» suggestions about pairing them with a peer, checking in often to address any frustration they may be feeling, and giving them feedback on their English usage so they can improve their language skills.

Given new college - and career - ready standards, as well as English language proficiency standards that emphasize English learner students» application of their new language skills to the content they are learning, a need for collaboration between ELL specialists and content - area teachers is emerging.

Brian Lightman, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «The decrease in modern languages at GCSE is disappointing but until employers give a clear message that they value languages as a business skill, it will be difficult to convince students otherwise».

[16] ELL students are often tasked with focusing on learning the English language and not given as much time or work on developing really ready skills.

Because language acquisition is combined with everything the students do, they actually spend their school day learning the full range of academic skills that one would expect at their given grade level.