Sentences with phrase «more text complexity»

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For Joe Sixpack, who is barely at the «I didn't know that there was more than one Greek text» stage, that functionality introduces a complexity that is almost incomprehensible.

The dialogues and the body languages mixed mime the dynamics of the complexity of the reality, Paul Valéry, in a magnificent text of 1936 (Philosophy of the dance) say it is an art deducted from life, an action of the whole human body transposed into a world, in a kind of space - time which is not any more completely the same as the one in practical life.

The CCSS require increased text complexity and the inclusion of informational texts, which will require more literacy instruction and support from birth throughout all levels of education.

In response to the Common Core requirement for a more accurate measure of text complexity than offered by standard readability formulas, Pearson's Knowledge Technologies researchers developed Reading Maturity Metric (RMM) based on empirically derived growth in individual word meanings.

They may also select more words to teach before writing, depending on the complexity of the text structures to be used.

In effect, students such as these described above can make more than a year's worth of progress and yet still not show progress on the NYS ELA due to the text complexity of all test passages.

The toolkit, expected to become available later in 2011 or in 2012, includes content - neutral formative assessment templates teachers can use to help students progress through reading and writing assignments that grow more demanding in terms of text complexity and expectations for thinking and writing.

Students whose ACT scores meet or exceed a specific benchmark on text complexity are found significantly more likely to enroll in college, earn a higher overall GPA in year one, and return to the same college for a second year.

In terms of the CCSS, students must be able to determine the theme poem, as well as the vocabulary (key ideas and details); understand structural elements of poems in terms of verse, rhythm, meter (craft and structure); and read and understand more complex poems (text complexity).

Text complexity analysis tools, content and performance complexity analyses for items and more in - depth performance tasks, and prioritization and test emphasis considerations will be explored.

The fundamental issues remain similar (e.g., teachers or textbooks as drivers of the curriculum, student challenges when using text in courses, cost of books); however, the advent of new technologies, like electronic text (e-text) and reading devices (e-readers) have added more complexity to the discussion.

At the same time, Achieve3000's proprietary adaptive content system continually monitors each student's reading performance and automatically increases the level of text complexity when it detects that an individual is ready for more challenge, steadily moving students up level by level.

The proprietary adaptive content system continually monitors each student's reading performance and automatically increases the level of text complexity when it detects that an individual is ready for more challenge, steadily moving students up level by level.

The League offers two - day sessions to learn how state standards have changed, including text complexity, literacy as a shared responsibility, mathematical practices, grade level changes in expectations, and more.

The programs monitored individual reading performances so that the level of text complexity students encountered automatically increased when a student was ready for more challenging text.

The texts in the set get increasingly more difficult, and the idea is that as students read they'll build knowledge that enables them to handle more complexity.

In addition, the adaptive content system continually monitors each student's reading performance and automatically increases the level of text complexity when it detects that an individual is ready for more challenge, steadily moving students up level by level.

When the authors of the AERA study analyzed the literature used by Common Core writers to justify the need for more complex texts, what they found was: «a tight and closed loop of researchers citing one another and leading... to an artificially heightened sense of scholarly agreement about a decline in textbook complexity.»

For example: Cookbooks will likely require more investment than a bare bones, straight text novel, due to added layout complexity.

KnowledgePoint transforms the digital reading experience for students and can help districts prepare students to build college and career readiness skills to succeed, align to the instructional reading shifts for text complexity mastery, provide personalized reading libraries of lexiled nonfiction and fiction text for citing text - based evidence, and more.