Sentences with phrase «grade at reading level»

She said Titus entered the fifth grade at reading level but by the end of the first nine weeks he was reading at a ninth - grade level.

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Consumer contracts and terms of service should be limited to a certain length and required to be written at a sixth - grade reading level.

They say most of you read at an eighth grade level - giving you too much credit lol.

All anyone has to do is go read either the Grace Commentary or any of Wilkin's third - grade reading level articles at faithalone.org.

Maybe if they put down their forties and gats for a second and learn how to read and write at a third grade level society would not fear them.

What the administrator said next, however, was alarming: «We don't think he will ever read at grade level.

But almost everyone needs to learn how to read TV at an «eleventh - grade» level.

He could read at eighth - grade level, but experts say it takes an eleventh - grade education to read and understand the Constitution.

I once did an assignment directed at adults in a professional setting where the editor asked me to reduce the concepts to a fourth - grade reading level because that was the average for those professionals.

That around 12th grade, out of the remaining children who have not dropped out or been expelled, 84 percent of them can't read at grade level.

According to a study by Byers, Dillard, Easton, Henry, McDermott, Oberman, and Uhramcher (1996), students at Urban Waldorf went from having 26 % of third grade students reading at or above grade level in 1992 to 63 % at or above grade level in 1995.

«But if you're reading now at second - grade level, «we think that you have demonstrated to us «that you have been able to improve your reading «by six months over the past year.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

I was reading way above my grade level, but that didn't matter as much as a «C» on a spelling test (because girls are suppose to be GOOD at spelling!).

As a bonus, my daughter knew all her letters — upper and lower — by sight and sign at 18 months old and now, at 4, can read at a first grade level.

Things that I would look for in an evaluation of a child for a reading disorder is, what's their rate of reading, are they reading at grade level, what's their reading comprehension, and what's their reading vocabulary.

The book for families is at a fifth - grade reading level.

The book for kids is at a third - grade reading level.

A sixth grader reading at a second grade level will not want to be seen carrying around a «baby book,» even if it's the only thing she can read.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

To ensure all children read at grade level by second grade, Mr. de Blasio said the city will provide more tutoring through reading programs for 10,000 children from kindergarten through second grade.

The majority of them aren't reading at grade level as it is.

It is pretty sad that rather than helping the children in the public schools in this district be able to read, write or do simple arithmetic at grade level, it is more important for our disgraced assemblyman to provide basketball nets, rather than educational safety nets.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty linAt 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty linat grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

Currently, only one in five Black or Hispanic students can read or write at grade level, and more than 200,000 Black and Hispanic students could not meet academic standards on this year's state exams.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

The average adult patient has an 8th grade literacy level but over 20 per cent of patients read at or below a 5th grade level.

Of patients over the age of 65, 40 per cent read at or below a 5th grade level.

In her research Gomez has seen other strategies that succeed for learning math and science, especially for kids who aren't reading at grade level or whose families don't speak English at home.

For example, in 2011 only 67 % of American children read at or above the basic level on the fourth - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The researchers found that students with intellectual disability who participated in four years of persistent, specialized instruction successfully learned to read at a first - grade level or higher.

After four years of the specialized teaching the researchers found that students with mild or moderate intellectual disability could independently read at the first - grade level, and some even higher.

He has an IQ of below 70, he reads at the first grade level.

Reading materials are rarely written at the recommended sixth - grade readingReading materials are rarely written at the recommended sixth - grade readingreading level.

At the start of eighth grade, I was reading at a second - grade leveAt the start of eighth grade, I was reading at a second - grade leveat a second - grade level.

I have taught for 16 years in 4th grade, self - contained 5th grade, 6th - 8th Reading Intervention at the middle school level, and 12 years as a 6th grade ELA teacher.

Jubilee students are reading at grade level within a year of arriving; they are then outperforming their peers on standardized TerraNova tests.

The 2011 8th - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that only 18 percent of Hispanic students and 14 percent of black students read at or above proficiency levels.

That is, as Anderson recognizes, «a very lofty aspirational goal, considering that we have about a third of our kids reading at grade level by the 3rd grade, and that we graduate about 55 percent of our kids, and only 23 percent of those do so by passing high - stakes tests.

The state also invested substantial support for early readers and focused on retaining 3rd graders who fail to read at grade level; state law allows for, but does not require, those students to be held back, which both Skandera and Martinez criticized as insufficient in a state with exceptionally low rates of adult literacy.

«I have some English - language - learners, some students reading at fourth grade level, and some at fifth grade level.

Traditional distance learning models can be effective, but they need to be adapted to ensure the experience is accessible for students that typically enter programs reading at the 6th - 10th grade level.

The year hasn't gone very well; because you are reading and doing math at a sixth - grade level, much of your coursework is a struggle.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

Schools in Boston, Massachusetts, serve many families living in poverty and have put into place various literacy reform models aimed at getting more children reading at grade level.

These HIGH INTEREST reading passages are geared toward grade level students and older students reading at a lower level.

While we've made some gains at the 4th - grade level (probably reflecting better instruction in decoding), reading - achievement trends by the end of high school are depressingly flat.

Some students in the class are reading at a first - or second - grade level, and some above fourth grade, which means Boxwood has to tweak her lesson plans a bit.

The Common Core State Standards outline what students should know and be able to accomplish at each grade level in reading and math.