Sentences with phrase «kinds of reading assessments»

Not exact matches

I was especially dismayed by his reading of my assessment of the real contributions of evangelicals and Roman Catholics in U.S. public culture; my point (more an aside, really) was simply that, for various reasons, they can not replace the kind of service to civil society that the mainline provides — not that they do no service at all.

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.

Administrators (and parents) need to learn how teachers use reading assessments, just as much as teachers need to learn new kinds of assessments.

I believe this initial assessment of the whole book, rather than reading only a chapter or two, is the best way to see how the author sustains the narrative arc — creates the premise, develops the action, resolves the problem — and brings the reader to some kind of satisfying personal experience, an emotional landing place, whether it's inspiring, happy, tragic or just plain informative.

I had kind of lost interest in the game because I had read elsewhere that it was a purely pedestrian affair, and after having played Oniken, I suspected that even that assessment was most likely a bit generous.

There are only two kinds of people on Earth; skeptics of catastrophic man - caused global warming, and those who'd become skeptics of that idea after reading the migraine headache - inducing levels of science detail within assessment reports from skeptic climate scientists.