Sentences with phrase «improvement in the reading»

My last Champagne toast was for a friends birthday (even though she wasn't really celebrating herself or with me), in the week little dude bought a beautiful piece of work home — we celebrated, this time with a more appropriate child friendly hot chocolate (with whipped cream), later that week we celebrated again with a pizza party thanks to a sticker regarding his improvements in reading.

For students with severe or «high» astigmatism, getting and wearing glasses may bring an improvement in reading fluency equivalent to one - half grade level, according to the report by Erin M. Harvey, PhD, and colleagues of The University of Arizona, Tucson.

Ben is a 12 year old dyslexic boy who had been given learning assistant support for the past six years yet made no improvement in his reading, writing or spelling.

A 2005 study by the Public Policy Institute of California found the improvement in reading «so definitive that San Diego's efforts are well worth a look by other school districts in California and the nation.»

The results show nationally there has been a 0.72 per cent improvement in reading results and a 0.81 per cent increase for numeracy for students across years 5, 3, 7 and 9.

Even worse, across all cohort - one schools, the average reading - proficiency increase was a mere five points — a cost of one billion dollars for each point of improvement in reading proficiency.

Our findings from Florida suggest that the use of standardized testing policies to end social promotion can help low - performing students make modest improvements in reading and substantial improvements in math.

The students in assistive software group saw an improvement in reading comprehension, spelling error detection, and understanding word meanings.

«In a lot of our schools we are seeing improvements in reading.»

Tennessee and Washington, D.C., showed the most growth of any state and city in the country, with major improvements in reading and math (and, in Tennessee, also in science).

«We have seen an improvement in reading and writing with students using more specific language.

It claimed that, in general, students did not show improvement in reading comprehension.

Just 12 of 262 CSR schools made «significant improvements in reading and mathematics over the next two years.»

Regardless of initial differences in test score levels, all schools appear to help their students make similar improvements in reading and math over two years.

When principals and literacy coaches understand what students are learning and teachers are teaching — and actually participate in literacy lessons — they set a positive tone that will lead to improvement in reading in their schools.

We then use data from the British Cohort Study, which regularly surveys all those living in Great Britain born in the United Kingdom between April 5 and 11 in 1970, to estimate the impact of an improvement in reading scores of this magnitude on future labor market earnings.

Even if we take the smallest impact estimate from our analysis (a 1.72 percentile improvement in reading scores, which corresponds to a 0.06 standard deviation increase), the economic benefits measure in the range of # 1,375 to # 3,581 over the course of a recipient's lifetime.

Second graders whose teachers over three years had participated in the program showed significant improvement in reading skills, equal to moving from the 50th to the 57th percentile.

«It's seeing the improvement in reading levels, and having them love us the way they do,» Kirk said.

Principals» Classrooms Visits Help Build Better Readers When principals and literacy coaches understand what students are learning and teachers are teaching — and participate in literacy lessons — they set a positive tone for the school that can lead to improvement in reading, say author and educator Dr. Beth Whitaker.

In 2014, BGCA members who participated in Summer Brain Gain's project - based learning practices showed significant improvements in reading (fifth - and eighth - graders) and math skills (fourth -, fifth -, and sixth - graders).

For supporters of recent reform efforts like the Common Core, an improvement in reading and math scores would likely be seen as a validation.

Improvements in oral language ability and phonological processing have been associated with improvements in reading ability and are thought to subserve learning to read (2 — 4).

There was generally improvement in reading and math by a significant rate of one to two grade levels among 9 - and 13 - year - old African American and Hispanic students during this decade.

More school administrators, educators, students, and parents than ever are seeing the dramatic improvements in Read More

Results are out for the 21 urban school districts that participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as «The Nation's Report Card,» and there are encouraging 10 - year trends of overall improvement in reading and math in grades 4 and 8.

The study found that ending social promotion helped low - performing students make modest improvements in reading and substantial improvements in math.

Double - digit improvements in reading are possible with pencil, paper, and nonfiction thinking.

Over a four - year period, Turnaround Arts schools on average have seen a 12.6 percent improvement in reading proficiency and 22.5 percent improvement in math proficiency.

The Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE) notified Educational Service District 123 of its regional winners who have made outstanding improvements in reading and math for the past five years.

The eight states that were slightly ahead of Maryland in their implementation of the Common Core standards showed improvement in reading or math or both.

The Blue Ribbon Schools state and nationwide program honors schools for high performance and students» improvement in reading and...

Her schools have been recognized for outstanding improvement in reading, attendance and overall student achievement.

Duke points to research by Goodwin and Ahn (2013) that argues that instruction in morphemes leads to improvements in word decoding, spelling, and vocabulary; and because word decoding and vocabulary contribute to reading comprehension, there is evidence that morphology instruction leads to improvement in reading comprehension and overall reading achievement (Goodwin & Ahn, 2010; Goodwin, Lipsky, & Ahn, 2012), even in the elementary grades (Rasinski, Padak, Newton, & Newton, 2013), and even for children who struggle in learning to read (Goodwin & Ahn, 2010; Nagy, Carlisle, & Goodwin, 2013).

His mom also sees a big improvement in his reading.

Overall levels of attainment are similar to last year, with girls out - performing boys in general and a slight improvement in reading.

After one year, findings concluded that all Jessamine County MyPath students showed significant improvements in their reading comprehension and mathematics skills.

For example, «Success for All» — a school - wide, first - through - fourth - grade strategy that emphasizes improvement in reading skills — has largely overcome these implementation problems.

Improvement in reading rate under independent and difficult text levels: Influences on word and comprehension skills.

Even children who do not reach this standard will have made considerable improvements in reading and writing.

It found no statistically significant improvement in reading or math test scores for students participating in the program.

Hartley Brook Academy, in Shiregreen, and Carrfield Academy in Rotherham have made improvements in reading, writing and maths of 22 per cent.

And with such a concentration on curriculum improvements in reading and math, the PTO's traditional role in providing for «extras» like music and art has become even more vital than ever.

The two sub-groups of students who showed the most improvement in reading were students for which federal government intervention is the least justifiable: students who did not come from SINI schools and students who were in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the Program.

Last year a group of nine leading educational researchers summarized the evidence this way: «Among voucher programs, random - assignment studies generally find modest improvements in reading or math scores, or both.

This is a general reading award that you can present to your students for a variety of different occasions: completing a book report project, reading a targeted number of books, doing well on a comprehension exam about a novel read in class, improved reading fluency, or general improvement in reading.

«Over a four - year period, Turnaround Arts schools in other communities experienced on average a 12.6 % improvement in reading proficiency and a 22.5 % improvement in math proficiency.

This is a reading improvement award that you can present to your students for improvement in reading fluency, comprehension, expression, or effort.

According to the NAEP, student learning progressed after NCLB much as it had been developing before: slow, steady gains in mathematics, particularly among elementary school students, but little improvement in reading at any grade.

Students averaged a nearly 2.8 grade level improvement in reading measured by the Slossen Oral Reading Test (SORT).