Sentences with phrase «minute reading period»

In a 10 - minute reading period, a proficient reader who reads 200 words a minute silently could read 2,000 words.

When the 10 - to 15 - minute reading period is over, the rider logs an ending time.

Not exact matches

The results are easy to read in just 3 minutes and promise over 99 % accuracy from the day of your expected period.

If homebirth was so safe, hospital birth would never have come into being; anyone who's read novels set before modern obstetrics, anyone who's spent ten minutes reading nonfiction about any historical period or paid attention in history class, knows that pregnancy / birth was a * major * cause of death for young women.

At KIPP Ascend, regular class periods, or blocks, are twice as long as the average block — 110 minutes every day for core subjects like math, reading, social studies, and science.

Fifteen minutes of the first period of every school day is a read - for - enjoyment time.

Teachers sign up for their classes to come for 15 - minute periods so every student can ride a bike while reading a magazine or book,» Ertl told Education World.

In addition, the entire school engages in 15 minutes of silent - reading time that is built into the first period of the day.

Teachers often spend only ten minutes delivering direct instruction; the rest of the class period is devoted to hands - on learning, as students participate in guided reading and writing or grapple with a math problem.

Support Others and Read (SOAR), which occurs every other day for the last twenty minutes of school and alternates with an advisory period that happens on opposite days.

For example, in READ 180 classrooms, «Each period begins with a 20 - minute shared reading and skills lesson, and then students in groups of five rotate among three activities: computer - assisted instruction in reading, modeled or independent reading, and small - group instruction with the teacher» (p. 19).

Most young American children spend anywhere from 90 minutes to two and a half hours a day in something educators call «the literacy block,» an extended period that might include reading aloud, small - group «guided reading,» independent writing, and other activities aimed at increasing children's verbal skills.

During the spring screening period, Maria read 89 words per minute on a grade - level passage with 87 % accuracy, which is below grade - level expectations (150 words, 95 % accuracy).»

As part of our daily 72 - minute class period, my students read books of their choice silently for 10 — 20 minutes.

Start off with shorter periods of independent reading time and gradually build on them as the school year goes on, up to about 45 — 60 minutes, depending on the age of your students.

None of our current methods attempt to steadily build up children's knowledge; not the empty state and district language arts standards, which rarely mention a specific text or piece of information; not the reading textbooks, which jump from one trivial piece to another; and not the comprehension drills conducted in schools in the long periods of 90 — 120 minutes devoted to language arts.

How to tally the reading varies — you can choose to count chapters, pages, or reading periods (minutes, hours, sessions), but the most common model for a readathon is to have students read as much as possible during the designated time period.

Throughout the school's classes in 2nd through 4th grade, there is an Accountable Independent Reading period where students read for 45 minutes.

The students had about 15 to 25 minutes during their silent reading improvement class period to read high - interest chapter books and stories on the Kindle.

The study, led by Dara Williams - Rossi of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, along with three others — Twyla Miranda from Texas Wesleyan University, Kary A. Johnson of The Reading Connection, and Nancy McKenzie of Tarrant Community College — gave 199 students Kindle readers to use for 25 minutes per daily reading class Reading Connection, and Nancy McKenzie of Tarrant Community College — gave 199 students Kindle readers to use for 25 minutes per daily reading class reading class period.

She suggests starting with short, regularly scheduled reading periods — as little as 30 minutes, perhaps four days a week.

Perhaps this is a beginning of period exercise, or a 15 - minute reading center, or a quick reward for a class session well done.

Here's the abstract: I will discuss the leading Supreme Court of Canada («the Court») decisions of the one - year period bookended by the Six - Minute Administrative -LSB-...] Read more

It has also introduced additional rules for TV phone - ins — viewers must be shown the total number of callers in the preceding 15 minute period and this must be updated every 10 minutes, the price of calls must be read out at least every 10 minutes and viewers must be warned every time they spend # 10 in a day.

She is limited in her ability to read to periods of perhaps ten minutes.

Twenty minute observation, electronic interference, digital download issues, mouthpiece replacement and failure to take breath samples within a reasonable time period of operation are other examples of common areas of defense when it comes to breath test readings.

Also, because I was weighing myself a bunch of times in a row, I saw my heart rate readings rise and fall from 69 to 75 beats per minute during a five - minute period when I was simply weighing myself.

Always take an extra minute to read over your resume and ensure there are no missed periods and misspelled words.