Sentences with phrase «lower ability children»

«Some of the lower ability children have done better than we thought - it didn't mirror what we expected.

The 3 ticks at the bottom are for your most able readers, 2 ticks for middle ability and 1 tick for lower ability children.

Not exact matches

Anything that raises the anxiety level or lowers the self - esteem of parents diminishes their ability to be sensitive and responsive to the heart - hungers of their children.

The challenge for anyone who wants to help nurture the noncognitive abilities of low - income children in these early years is that the kind of deliberate practice children experience in pre-K doesn't do much to help develop their executive functions.

Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among children of lower socioeconomic status.

Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among children of lower socioeconomic status.

Those outcomes were: «low moral internalization, aggression, antisocial behavior, externalizing behavior problems, internalizing behavior problems, mental health problems, negative parent - child relationships, impaired cognitive ability, low self - esteem, and risk of physical abuse from parents.»

One of the most beneficial features of the bassinet is the ability to rotate 360 degrees and lower both side walls allowing access to both children.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

Missing out on even one hour of sleep a night could have major consequences for a child, possibly lowering their cognitive abilities the following day and possibly hurting their academic performance at school or acquisition of knowledge at home.

Heckman, a Nobel laureate, argues that ability gaps between middle - class and low - income children open up early in life, and that the skills they need to close that gap have more to do with personal traits than with knowledge acquisition.

«There's what I would describe as low - level disruption where children are bored and not motivated, so they start to use their abilities for other ends.

Golden said that parents in low - income areas are subjected to «toxic stress» that affects their ability to relate to their children.

«Efforts to enhance the academic performance of low - income children need to consider multiple aspects of their development, including the ability to plan in a goal - oriented manner.»

Lower reporting of autism concerns by black parents may affect healthcare providers» abilities to identify children who need further screening or evaluation.

Individuals who solely kill children tend to have relatively low intelligence, poor communication skills and problem - solving abilities, and often are mentally ill.

Increased household chaos, especially disorganization, also lowered a child's ability to recognize emotions.

Low levels of lead affect children's IQs, their ability to pay attention and how well they do in school.

In contrast, children and adolescents who had both lower levels of cardiorespiratory capacity and motor ability had lower grades.

Taken together, the results show that after taking account of influential factors, such as age, smoking, and previous motherhood, low to moderate alcohol consumption did not seem to interfere with a child's ability to balance for any of the three components assessed.

However, the British system does less to compensate children of low ability from advantaged backgrounds.

The effects of social origins prove to be just as strong — if not stronger — for the brightest children as for those with lower ability, says the study.

Looking to explain why income matters, they found evidence in support of two central theories, one relating to parents» ability to invest in goods and services that further child development, and the other relating to the stress and anxiety parents suffer caused by low income.

These children often have high maintenance temperaments, characterized by high physical activity, low ability to persist at tasks, and negative reactions to even minor situations.

«We should not be satisfied with language levels that are lower than a child's cognitive ability.»

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

Early childhood programs have long been known to be beneficial to children from low - income backgrounds, but recent studies have cast doubt on their ability to substantially increase the rate of children's academic achievement.

The findings of a pioneering four - year educational study offer hope for thousands of children identified with intellectual disability or low IQ who have very little, if any, reading ability.

Small children with low levels of vitamin B12 had more difficulties solving cognitive tests, such as the ability to do puzzles, recognize letters and interpret other children's feelings.

Previous research has also found that children with cotinine levels showing even very low levels of tobacco smoke exposure have reduced antioxidant levels and delayed cognitive abilities.

In these healthy UK children with below average reading ability, concentrations of DHA and other Omega - 3 LC - PUFA were low relative to adult cardiovascular health recommendations, and directly related to measures of cognition and behavior.

In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, he investigates why those with the most intellectual or natural talent quite often don't achieve what their abilities promise them, and for the most part his conclusions come down to class, lower class children often aren't exposed to the information and guidance to succeed in this world, and are instilled with distrust of authority, and without the proper skills to work well alongside others.

NOTE: It is necessary to erase the prices, in white, on Gordon's muti - buy shop for the lower and middle ability paper because each child will have a different price.

Lessons differentiated for High Ability (HA), Middle (MA), Low (LA) and Special Educational Needs children (SEN) Plans come with resources in the form of Powerpoint and publisher so you can edit them to suit the children in your class.

And there's a powerful case to be made for accelerating social mobility by educating high - ability, low - income children.

Summer - born children were perceived by teachers to have lower levels of language ability and have more instances of behaviour problems.

Sorting Loud and Quiet Instruments - Reception Differentiated worksheets lower ability - cut and stick pictures of instruments under the correct heading middle ability - my children wrote over yellow pen top ability - copy from a word mat / attempt to spell words independently

It is very easy to differentiate, with upper band students I focus on the difficult elements from the Bible such as God killing Egyptian children, God hardening the Pharaoh's heart etc. and with lower ability students we focus on the more visible inconsistencies in the story such as the Bible not mentioning the Pharaoh as Moses» brother and the smaller role played by Aaron in the film.

They saw them as having very low social skills (lower than anybody else) they saw them as the most disruptive to the classroom, in need of attention from the teacher almost constantly which then interrupted her ability to teach and to work with the other children, and they were regarded as a huge problem that had to be managed in some way.

«I think we have to be careful in schools not to too quickly label children as low achieving, because kids develop early ideas of their own abilities,» Professor Gore said.

Updating his findings, McLanahan and Jencks report that «A father's absence lowers children's educational attainment, not by altering their scores on cognitive tests, but by disrupting their social and emotional adjustment and reducing their ability or willingness to exercise self - control.»

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

A simple home school reading booklet for KS1 or lower ability KS2 children.

In the past two decades, something extraordinary has happened with very little fanfare: The reading ability of our lowest - performing children has increased significantly.

Of the children who are in school today — especially those in rural areas — 50 per cent of the mothers have probably not had any schooling or very little schooling, which means that the ability at home to help children with learning is very low.

This resource is suitable for Year 3 / P4 children and is differentiated for lower achievers, on task and higher ability children.

Even though low - income parents might care deeply about the schools their children attend, they do not always have access to - or the ability to access - information that would help them determine the best schools in which to place their children.

It's an absolute disgrace that the pressure on schools to ensure pupils pass tests means children as young as three consider themselves «low ability» right at the start of their academic life, a belief which could impact on their self - esteem, carry on throughout their schooling and determine the direction of their adult lives.

After receiving hyped - up praise, children with low self - esteem feel pressured to master work above their perceived abilities and subsequently withdraw from challenges, according to a 2014 study.

Deliberately developing these skills can also improve outcomes for low - income children, whose ability to access EF skills may be compromised by the chronic stressors associated with living in poverty.