Sentences with phrase «kindergarten reading performance»

The study assessed the ability of English phonemic awareness measures to predict kindergarten reading performance and determine factors that contributed to growth trajectories on those measures for

Not exact matches

By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

For instance, University of Michigan psychologist Harold Stevenson found a correlation of 0.52 between the ability to name the letters of the alphabet on entering kindergarten and performance on a standardized test of reading comprehension in grade 10.

We are going to accelerate reading performance in Kindergarten and first grades.»

Legislation passed by the 2013 General Assembly (House Bill 2068) added kindergarten and grades one and two to the requirement that local school divisions provide early intervention services to students in grade three who demonstrate deficiencies based on their individual performance on diagnostic reading tests.

Figure 2: Poor children who were chronic absentees in kindergarten had the lowest performance in reading and math in fifth grade

Improve the performance of participating students in kindergarten through grade 2 on early reading assessments

The district created an Early Success Performance Plan for the pre-K-3 grades that included aligned reading, writing, and math curriculum; ongoing district - designed diagnostic and formative assessments at each age / grade level; extensive professional development for teachers; a prioritized focus on full - day kindergarten and smaller class size for the district's most at - risk students; and both summer advancement and after - school programs for struggling elementary students.

Kindergarten readiness and performance of Latino children participating in Reach Out and Read.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10