Sentences with phrase «grade reading below»

The percentage of all young men in fourth grade reading Below Basic on NAEP 2015.

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I was surprised to learn that more than 47 % of U.S. children are below grade - level reading.

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.

Most children in our local school fail these tests, read below grade average, and are performing math far below grade average.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

Louise Slaughter: «By 4th grade, 86 percent of African - American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.»

Says «by 4th grade, 86 percent of African - American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.»

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

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 line.

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.

Elementary school children who read below grade level may have challenges with their eyesight even if standard tests show they see 20/20, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.

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

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

Nevertheless, as you'll read below, Lauren and I agree that there's a universal approach that everyone can take regardless of whether you're a grade school teacher in Albuquerque, an an accountant in Chicago or an attorney in NYC.

Consider using common clue words as in the table below (adapted from Improving reading comprehension in kindergarten through 3rd grade: A practice guide).

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.

Statewide, more than three quarters of 4th graders read below grade level, the same share of 8th graders are below grade level in math, and nearly one third of high - school students drop out.

«I learn better because the online curriculum actually reads to you,» says Kierre Hardin, who, like many VOISE students, entered his freshman year testing below the fifth - grade level in reading.

Teachers also plan to use a tool designed to assess the reading fluency of primary students with below - level readers in grades 4 - 6 to see how their needs can be addressed, said Poplar.

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

I'm also proud of the movement of a lot of our kids from far below grade level in reading and math to passing Regents tests.

Over half of poor and minority students have reading and math skills far below grade level, whether measured by the tough performance standards of the NAEP or by the standards of the various states.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

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 1998, Florida's 4th grade NAEP reading scores were one grade level below the national average; by 2005, their adjusted scores were above the national average.

One that I describe in my review is Davis Guggenheim's claim that 70 percent of 8th grade students read «below grade level.»

New findings by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux released in a report today by Strategies for Children, Inc., revealed that 43 percent of Massachusetts third graders read below grade level, which may lead to continued struggles in high school and puts them at...

This reading kit is designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level...

In 2009, 27 percent of Florida's 4th graders scored below basic on 4th grade reading.

For a decade or more, school reform has been an urban tale of superintendents seeking to «turn around» schools in poverty - stricken communities, where vast numbers of children read below grade level and drop out before graduation.

The earliest findings: First - graders are considered to be at risk of disengaging from school (and potentially becoming fully disengaged and dropping out in the future) if by the third marking period they're absent from school nine or more times, are below grade level in reading and / or mathematics, and / or have a calculated grade point average below 1.2 in the third marking period.

Since 2004, the Jenks Public Schools has tracked the number of students entering first grade whose reading skills are below grade level.

I know of no valid evidence to make the claim that two out of three eighth graders are below grade level in reading and math.

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

«When you've got a majority of students reading three to five grade levels below where they should be, a population of kids who aren't motivated, for whom homework isn't important and grades don't matter, you've got to try a new way of doing things.»

Indeed, I wish the testing requirement extended below third grade and above eighth, and that it was as demanding for science and history as for reading and math.

The students, almost all African American, more than 80 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, came with skill levels all over the map; a majority read at a 5th - grade level or below.

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.

Q: What are the most effective strategies to help students whose reading is significantly below grade level?

The teacher might alter the content of the reading materials by selecting three different texts - one slightly below grade - level, one at grade - level, and an above - grade level text.

Mismatched textbooks and an absence of support for students who read well above or below grade level have negative effects!

Many years ago, in my third year as a public school teacher, I discovered that about half of my 7th - grade students read four or more years below grade level, and about half read four or more years above grade level.

DiGisi also meets with two groups of seventh - and eighth - grade students who read below grade level.

Teachers currently have students who read several grades above and below grade level in the same classroom and most feel that they are not able to effectively differentiate instruction for students of all levels of achievement.

And yet Atlanta under Hall tied for the biggest NAEP gains in 8th - grade reading (see graph below).

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

Her research revealed that 43 percent of Massachusetts third - graders read below grade level, which may lead to continued struggles in high school and puts them at significant risk of not graduating or contributing to the state's knowledge - based economy.

Illinois set its proficiency bar for 8th - grade reading at a level that is 1.01 standard deviations below the national average.

In the year before assignment, such schools had an average 4th grade combined reading and math test score that was.67 student - level standard deviations below the average school.