Sentences with phrase «ninth graders reading»

In an area high school, I worked with ninth graders reading on a third to fifth grade level.

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But I'm thinking back to my kids — the third grader who hadn't learned to grasp a pencil and the outwardly confident ninth grader who was hesitant to expose his difficulty reading aloud.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

As I contemplated the writing assignment for our required reading of The Odyssey, I was filled with dread at the thought of reading 120 uninspired essays in which my ninth graders would dutifully recount details from the epic.

Support personnel work with pre-kindergarten-through-second-grade students with poorly developed reading and writing skills, third graders who were held back, and students moving into sixth and ninth grades.

The school lives and dies on the math [and reading] scores of ninth graders.

Keep in mind that about a third of TMA's entering ninth - graders start off at or below a fifth - grade level of proficiency in math and reading, and come from 50 to 60 different middle schools across Washington, Pardo adds.

Screening data show that only 39 percent of ninth - graders read at or on grade level, «very much mirroring what we knew about our middle school students, says Annie Wolfe, secondary curriculum and development officer.

«Once you get to high school, there's so many more years a student could be behind, it's not unusual for ninth - graders to be reading at a fourth - grade level,» he said.

«Everyone really struggled with the model,» she said, noting that as a nonselective school, she has some ninth - graders coming in at a kindergarten reading level.

If I have a ninth - grader who reads at third - grade level, I must give the student a strategy for breaking down the word into decodable chunks so that they can read the type of words found in ninth - grade reading material.

In years past, K - 12 accountability measures focused on data points such as third - grade reading scores, the number of ninth - graders taking algebra, or setting new records for the most number of AP tests taken and passed.

Short sentences with content ranging from conversation to real - life scenarios can help middle school students through ninth - graders learn how to make inferences about what they have read.

School report cards show 48 percent of METS ninth - graders passed their eighth - grade math and reading exams, above the state average.

In the study, reading and mathematics scores were matched with fitness scores of 353,000 fifth graders, 322,000 seventh graders, and 279,000 ninth graders.

If you're a ninth grader, you're reading John Green, Coe Booth, Allison van Diepen, James Dashner, Luis Rodriguez, Suzanne Collins, and Stanley Tookie Williams.