Sentences with phrase «lack basic reading skills»

When patients lack basic reading skills, it can impact the health care system to the tune of $ 100 billion annually.

Four in ten of our fourth - graders lack basic reading skills.

Fortunately, even older teens who lack basic reading skills can become successful readers.

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If you aren't convinced that this flawed belief system is the product of a con man, then you lack basic reading comprehension skills.

A few years ago, Jocelyn Graves, of Sacramento, California, was shocked to learn that her fourth - grade son lacked some very basic reading skills.

The most startling finding of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000 of the 1.1 million at - risk workers have earned a high school credential but still lack basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.

Per the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), «Many children, including children with learning disabilities, do not learn to read in the first grade because they lack the basic readiness skills or the school's method is not appropriate for them.

Too many pupils lack basic skills in science, maths and reading and too few pupils work at the highest levels in these subjects.

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.