Sentences with phrase «kindergarten and first grade scored»

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.

Not exact matches

Spanish vocabulary scores tended to be lower than English scores and showed no improvement from kindergarten to first grade.

The researchers were particularly interested in knowing whether children's English narrative scores in first grade were related to their English and Spanish language skills during kindergarten.

Uccelli and Paez found that, on average, first - grade English narrative quality scores were higher among children who, at kindergarten scored higher on the English vocabulary test, used a greater number of distinct words in their English narrative, and had higher story structure scores on their Spanish narrative.

The researchers found that the higher the number of struggling students, who scored in the bottom 15 percent in kindergarten, in a first - grade teacher's classroom, the more likely the teachers were to use manipulatives (hands - on materials), calculators, music and movement (See Table 3 on page 12 in the study).

Gains are measured by how much students math scores rose between kindergarten and the end of first grade.

Overall, year 1 results on MacMillan for kindergarten students with lower reading scores demonstrated a significant difference of.000; for first grade overall results were not significant; second grade results were significant at.000; and third grade results were significant at.042.

The Greenfield schools piloted the model in kindergarten and middle school grades, all of which saw proficiency exceed or equal the scores of other Achievement First schools in Connecticut after just one year.