Sentences with phrase «impact on comprehension»

Under the right conditions, intensive and skillful instruction in basic word reading skills can have a significant impact on the comprehension ability of students in fifth grade and beyond (Center on Instruction, 2008).

That does have an impact on comprehension in the future, not just in that text.

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«The economic impact that this has on our area is beyond comprehension.»

«It's comforting to know that previous findings on the culturally polarizing impact of greater science comprehension can be replicated,» he said, adding that the findings are particularly reassuring in an era when many findings in social sciences are facing intense scrutiny over replicability.

Research published today in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension.

Congratulations to Zhao «Ellen» Peng from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, for being awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal, for her doctoral research on how room acoustics impacts speech comprehension by English - as - Second - Language listeners.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

Specifically, he will work with the PI and core project staff to develop an analysis plan, direct the evaluation of the efficacy of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Listening and Learning Read Aloud Program, articulate the fully specified multi-level models used to estimate treatment impacts on child - level vocabulary, listening comprehension and domain knowledge outcomes, and guide the secondary analyses that examine whether the quality of read alouds mediate treatment effects on child outcomes and the baseline, child - level moderators of treatment effects.

We will estimate impacts on reading comprehension and generate per pupil costs of the various READS interventions.

Written to support the 2006 Shift happens film (with a link to the YouTube film) the worksheet supports the films content with a mixture of comprehension and higher order questions tailored to the more able or as a flipped learning activity, having students consider the process and impact of exponential change and the impact globalisation will have on their lives

SPANISH SOCIOCULTURAL ACTIVITIES Las Redes Sociales Includes: - Text on origins / history of social networks with interesting facts - Set of comprehension questions on the text - Group Activity involving creating your own social network and presenting it to the class in Spanish - Spidergram to organize a class discussion on Social Networks and the impact they have on society

It presses for a twin focus on fluency in decoding words and reading comprehension, urges reading improvement programs to stress impact rather than the number of children served, and calls for strengthening professional development and linking improved training in language development and reading to classroom practice.

Teachers will want to browse through the archive of research reports and articles on such topics as differentiating literacy instruction, how television impacts the development of reading comprehension and early literacy for inner - city children among others.

A text about the modern issue of working mothers and its impact on the family and on the mothers themselves + related reading comprehension tasks.

In explaining the decision to zero out the program, Rep. David R. Obey, D - Wis., the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, cited the results of a preliminary federal evaluation of Reading First, released May 1, which found that the program has had no impact on students» reading comprehension.

We found that on this delayed outcome, the treatment had a statistically significant impact on children's reading comprehension, improving performance by.04 SD (standard deviation) overall and.05 SD in high - poverty schools.

Randomized field trials were used to examine the impact of the Teacher Study Group (TSG), a professional development model, on first grade teachers» reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, their knowledge of these areas, and on the comprehension and vocabulary achievement of their students.

The findings highlight the potentially positive impact of classroom - and home - based summer reading interventions on the reading comprehension ability of low - income children.

Similarly, students with the lowest vocabulary scores were those who were in the bottom quarter (at or below the 25th percentile) in reading comprehension.8 This means those additional 12 million words could potentially have a huge impact on student success.

The impact of trauma on the brain disrupts memory, organizational skills, and comprehension.

Increasing engaged reading time from less than 15 minutes to more than 30 minutes had almost no impact on Student Growth Percentile (SGP) gains if literal comprehension remained low.

Based on the successful Math - in - CTE curriculum integration study and professional development model, the Authentic Literacy in CTE study sought to determine the impact of disciplinary literacy strategies on the reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and motivation to read for students enrolled in CTE courses.

In the UK, recent evaluations of programmes that have included a focus on teaching reading comprehension strategies have not found such an extensive impact, though there is evidence that children from disadvantaged backgrounds may benefit more.

Amy M. Elleman, Endia J. Lindo, Paul Morphy, and Donald L. Compton, «The Impact of Vocabulary Instruction on Passage - Level Comprehension of School - Age Children: A Meta - Analysis,» Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 2 (2009): 1 — 44.

The researchers found that baseball knowledge had a big impact on performance: Poor readers with a high knowledge of baseball displayed better comprehension than good readers with a low knowledge of baseball.

Specifically, he supports documenting, monitoring, and measuring Flamboyan's impact on K - 3 teachers and students through reading comprehension and classroom library programs.

Since students are able to listen to the vocabulary and story on the CD, this strategy helps them improve their fluency, knowledge of vocabulary, and understand the importance of fluent reading and how it impacts their higher - level comprehension.

Carrell and Eisterhold (1988) and Carrell (1983, 1984) have demonstrated the positive impact that prior knowledge of a topic or situational context has on ELLs» reading comprehension.

Impact of the Thinking Reader software program on grade 6 reading vocabulary, comprehension, strategies, and motivation (NCEE 2010 - 4035).

The National Reading Panel's research findings concluded that guided oral reading and repeated oral reading had a significant and positive impact on word recognition, reading fluency, and comprehension in students of all ages.

While traditional comprehension activities are important when teaching reading, they will not have any impact on a child's comprehension unless the child is reading accurately and fluently.

The project recognizes that librarians» time (and that of their classroom colleagues) is limited and looks for the high - leverage practices with the greatest impact on student comprehension.

While there are special fonts for dyslexic readers that can be installed on the iPad, there is limited research on their impact on reading speed and comprehension.

This exploration has raised my awareness of the way our perception of a subject develops over brief slices of time, specifically the impact that each passing moment has on the fidelity of our greater visual comprehension.

Covering Antarctica is tricky for science journalists: The quantities of ice, and therefore, the potential impact on the global climate system is beyond human comprehension — but often, so are the timescales.

In addition to an increasing comprehension of the impact that such toxic behaviours have on the parties involved and the workplace as a whole, provinces like Manitoba have legislation (such as The Human Rights Code and The Workplace Safety and Health Act) which specifically target those behaviours.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Looking for an Epidemiologist position with Lab Services: • Five years of clinical experience of coordinating and implementing activities related to building the practice and evidence - base of health equity • Highly skilled in conducting analysis of performance monitoring data to bring about comprehension of equity impact • Hands on experience in designing and developing data collection instruments and systems related to diseases on case - based surveillance • Proven experience of assisting in planning implementing electronic lab reporting