Sentences with phrase «grade class reading»

«I thought it was a legitimate question,» Miller said: ««Is my son or daughter in her fourth - grade class reading at her fourth - grade level?

«Is my son or daughter in his or her fourth - grade class reading at his or her fourth - grade level?»

Mr. Klein's 4th grade class read a book about an inner city school that was running out of...

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It's really hard to pass a class when your reading comprehension is on a par with a kid in first grade.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

In the second - grade room, the teacher was sitting in slacks on the front table, a scarf wrapped around her head, reading a story to the class — everyone paying eager attention except the two who were cleaning the hamster cage.

Obviously NONE of those low IQ bandwagoners even READ the books (I did a critical analysis of the LOTR series in 12th grade for my English class).

I too have been reading since the beginning — who needs a story — you've got the man, you've got the happiness, and you've got the skills to make one hell of an empty stomach feel like the luckiest organ in the world — Besides, my husband, who was able to vote when I was born, just happens to be my professor from college... And when people ask what grade I got in his class, I become quiet and with a slight whisper say «I got a B» — And that was only 1 of 3 B's I got in college... Our story is wonderful for him since he nabbed the young student... Doesn't sound so good for me, but I love him and sharing it regardless... Happy Anniversary Deb and Alex!!!

Academics such as reading and writing are left until grade school, while a foundation for literacy is built in the early childhood classes.

The sports programs could remain - the music and arts programs could go on, no classes would need to be eliminated, kids could still learn how to read by second grade and the teachers could maintain a living wage and benefit package.

Superintendent Christopher Brown told his school board recently that the district would have to cut 62 full - and part - time positions, drop a year of middle school art and eliminate its seventh - grade reading program and high school Latin classes, among many other reductions.

He read a narrative to 45 undergraduate students describing an event that had supposedly taken place in their first - grade class.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

I spend «down» time reading papers, chatting science with my lab mates or advisor, or getting other work done (at the beginning of my graduate career, this was class assignments or grading for my teaching assignments... lately, it's writing!).

Hm, Im the kind of girl that's the loner in the class, the one that makes good grades, innocent, just reads manga in the back of the class or doodles.

Inspired by a letter he received from an eighth grade class, Coppola turned The Outsiders into a devouring CinemaScope fever dream: an homage to Robert Wise and Nicholas Ray that took its chief inspiration from the timeless backlit twilights of Gone with the Wind, which the boys read to pass their time in self - imposed exile.

The drama cards can be used with 3rd - 6th grade and used within a whole class scenario or smaller groups, where the children are given several cards to read and act from.

I'm in the middle of reading to my seventh - grade class the book Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli.

Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working - class.

An English teacher that I read about, after weeks of essays and test prep, surprised his 12th grade class with a game of kickball out on the blacktop.

Mary Carvalho (standing, left), principal of Lonsdale Elementary School in Lincoln, Rhode Island, watches her «shadow,» Christine A. Nowak, director of marketing for the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, read to a third grade class.

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.

For example: have the student take care of the class rabbit, deliver lunch money to the office, collect homework, help another student with a computer problem, read aloud the school's morning announcements, answer the school phone while the secretary is at lunch, or tutor a student in a lower grade.

Initial sessions of reading comprehension classes designed for students in grades 1 and 2 comprise of reading aloud stories or passages to students, which help them expand their vocabulary.

Students in the class of 2004 at Amistad Academy went from 38 percent mastery in reading in 6th grade to 81 percent mastery in 8th grade.

The hardwood floor in Doreen Weiss's second - grade class was lovely to look at but uncomfortable to sit on during reading time, so Weiss covered part of it with a colorful rug decorated with a world map — one paid for not by the school, nor by Weiss herself, but by an anonymous donor through the Web site DonorsChoose.org.

Michaelson estimates that the process of administering the test to a class, hand - grading each one, analyzing the class results, and discussing them with him takes each teacher anywhere from three hours for the reading assessment in the early part of the year to seven hours for math near the end of the year.

Fifth - grade lead teacher Joshua White looks at student performance on each «strand» of standards in reading, writing, and math, both within his own class and across the grade.

If you say they are a fourth - grade class and should only read fourth - grade stuff, then you're not challenging them to read higher.»

However, a prescribed curriculum requires time reading teacher manuals, making copies, and grading benign assignments, where as a student - driven and teacher - curated curriculum, personalized to the needs of individual students and classes, redistributes your time.

Such an aspiration is a challenge at the school, where up to 90 percent of students in the inaugural class entered with reading and math skills below grade level.

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.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

In 3rd grade reading, girls» scores rise by 0.038 points for every 10 percentage point change in the share of their class that is female.

Jefferson School, into whose district my family moved when I was in second grade, was a sizable K — 8 neighborhood school with large classes and unabashed division of reading groups into «blue birds» and «red birds.»

Before reading on, please take a look at this example of a VoiceThread from Megan's eighth grade class based on the novel The Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings.

Electives are often replaced with supplemental math or reading classes to bring the students up to grade - level expectations.

Last year his class began the year with a Development Reading Assessment Average of a grade 3.5 readingReading Assessment Average of a grade 3.5 readingreading level.

During this 40 minute non graded class ~ students read and discussed literature ~ did character education building ~ computer activities ~ geography and writing projects ~ and shared issues of the day.

During Levinson's interactive PPE session, she presented participants with a case study focused on an eighth grade teaching team, which had to decide whether to promote or retain a 15 - year - old girl who had failed required classes and was reading way below grade level, but who also had worked hard to succeed in the face of numerous personal traumas.

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

What on earth is being taught in a third grade classroom where the smartest girl in the class is crying with frustration and the student who can not read is excelling and delightedly helping others?

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

Yet on close reading, de Blasio's nine - page education plan offers mostly bromides and impossible dreams: «ensure that all students are reading at grade level by third grade,» «reduce class size,» «involve and engage parents and families,» and «place great leaders to lead great teachers in every school.»

A 3rd - grade class closely reads the poem «Two Lives Are Yours,» and, with skillful guidance from the teacher, a young boy is able to discern the poem's meaning: «reading lets you escape reality and enter new worlds.»

Our research has found that a wide range of instruction spanning eight or nine grade levels of reading achievement exists in the average third or fourth grade class.

These 6 pages contain a high interest short story written at a 4 - 5th grade reading level, but of interest to all students, 4th grade to adult ESL, GED or Citizenship classes.

A federal study suggests that giving struggling 9th grade readers an extra literacy class can boost their reading - comprehension skills, but not dramatically enough to get them up to grade level by the end of a single school year.

Carlos read at a 5th - grade level, but in discussions of Othello and Of Mice and Men, «he always had something interesting, and more often comical, to add to the class.»

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