Sentences with phrase «of fifth grade students»

One of the fifth grade students noticed how students struggled with keyboarding and word processing.

KIPP Indy Public Schools (KIPP Indy) was founded in 2004 with one class of fifth grade students and has grown to educate more than 700 students across two schools.

Although there are a number of areas that appear to be sources of reading difficulty, Valencia and Buly (2004) found that a substantial number of fifth grade students who scored below the proficient standard on a fourth grade state reading test exhibited difficulties in what the Common Core State Standards have identified as a foundational reading skill — reading fluency.

However, by the fifth grade, the percentage of Capital Preparatory Students to meet or exceed CMT proficiency standards in reading and writing was greater than the state average, and the percentage of fifth grade students to meet or exceed CMT proficiency standards in math was significantly closer to the average state percentage.

A group of fifth grade students interview the first Hispanic American astronaut, Ellen Ochoa.

This year's group of fifth grade students (now entering the stream of «tweendom and preparing to step into the potentially perilous middle school years of sixth - to - eighth grade) was born in 2001.

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At Audubon Park Elementary in Orlando, Florida, fifth - grade students will observe a moment of silence for the Parkland victims; younger students will participate in age - appropriate observances, and their parents will write letters to Congress and the White House.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Established in 1956, Clark County School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Fifth grade students are asked to examine in depth a societal issue of their choice, and also take an «action» to help ameliorate the problem.

KidsQuest KidsQuest is a CDC website designed for students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, to get them to think about people with disabilities and some of the issues related to daily activities, health, and accessibility.

Last spring, a class of fifth - grade students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District descended on the South Lawn of the White House to help us dig, mulch, water and plant our very first kitchen garden.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Schools across New York were shaken this spring when nearly one - fifth of students opted out of the required English tests for the third through the eighth grades.

To celebrate this historic effort, one of the Tata group companies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will host a «Read - A-Loud» with pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students at Urban Scholars Community School, where each of these 300 + students will receive two books to add to their personal libraries at home.»

Adding a fifth grade class, which is being implemented due to a increased number of students, will cost $ 75,000.

It's unknown whether the retreat from the most controversial effects of the Common Core standards will quell a boycott movement that led to one fifth of students skipping the third through eighth grade standardized tests earlier this year.

About 38,000 teachers, or 20 percent, had one - fifth of their evaluations based on their students» scores in the fourth - through eighth - grade English and math tests.

Jennifer Ronayne, a fifth - grade teacher at the Connetquot schools with 13 years of experience, said Cuomo has little understanding of how classrooms work — and of how harmful his policies have been for teachers and students, particularly those children who have special needs or who are English language learners.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one - fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

A fifth grade teacher from Saratoga Springs is accused of having a sexual relationship with a former student.

At a ceremony that included a saxophone performance and was attended by the Friends of the East Elmhurst Library as well as by about 30 fifth - and eighth - grade students from East Elmhurst's PS 127, the East Elmhurst Library's Community Library Manager Johnnie Dent and Queens Library Chief Executive Officer Tom Galante thanked Peralta for his donation.

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. more

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m.

That set off a backlash in which a fifth of the eligible students sat out the state's third - through eighth - grade reading and math tests last spring.

Increasing intake of fruits and vegetables among fourth and fifth grade students via serious video game play showed promising results, but more work must be done to ensure children are meeting their recommended intake.

II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital evaluated how creating implementation intentions (i.e., specific plans) within the goal - setting component in the game helped fourth and fifth grade students improve fruit and vegetable intake at specific meals.

The test scores of students are taken from fifth - and sixth - grade results in the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), in math and English language arts.

For the study, the researchers assessed the lunch intake and physical activity of 151 fourth and fifth grade students from two low - income schools.

These are just a few examples of appropriate science activities for fifth grade students.

In a study of fourth - and fifth - grade students, we found that those randomly assigned to learn the WWWDOT framework became, as compared to their pre-test and to a control group, more aware of the need to evaluate information on the internet for credibility and better able to evaluate the trustworthiness of websites on multiple dimensions (Zhang & Duke, 2011).

The assembly will be held twice, and the six students panelists, who are in fifth through eighth grades, will talk about their experiences of being teased or of witnessing teasing.

«This kind of experience teaches students important life skills,» says fifth - grade teacher Francie Kugelman from Dahlia Elementary in Los Angeles.

The number of students achieving top grades also fell for the fifth year in a row, with the proportion gaining A or A * dropping 0.7 per cent to 20.5 per cent.

The Units build upon the prior, with the intention that by the end of Fifth grade, students will have received almost forty lessons directly aligned with the CCSS that additionally enhance their understanding of, and ability to, think critically about ways to generate more kindness on an individual and global level.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

Melissa Trantolo, a new Clark fifth - grade teacher, said she was eager to meet some of her students.

The most disaggregated column in Table 1 shows how increasing n - size leaves more students unaccounted for: with n - size of 10, only 11 percent of Black students in third through fifth grade would be left out of accountability systems, whereas with n - size of 30 — and no other strategy to pool data — 39 percent would be left out.

Teachers can also use «I Wonders» to see themes and subject areas about which students are really curious, such as when fifth - grade teacher Brittany German noticed that she was getting a lot of «I Wonder» questions about outer space.

Also figuring into this years planning is the states first test of science skills, which will be administered to fifth graders and is designed to assess what students learned in third - through - fifth grades.

Every time I speak with students, whether they're in fifth grade or high school seniors, I'm reminded of the value of listening to them.

The above interview took place recently between one of my fifth - grade students and a researcher at the University of South Florida.

In the fall of fifth grade, Japanese students from the Katoh Elementary School in Numazu, near Tokyo, come to Portland.

Along the way, the player can be assisted by a «classmate,» one of five cast members (who are fifth grade students), in answering the questions.

the average math scores of students assigned to three highly effective teachers in a row rose from the 55th percentile in third grade to the 76th percentile by the end of fifth grade.

One of the consequences of the high - stakes state assessments that were mandated in NCLB and the requirement for a fifth indicator of school success in the present - day successor of NCLB (The Every Student Succeeds Act) is a preeminent concern among school and district leaders with how to measure student soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and sStudent Succeeds Act) is a preeminent concern among school and district leaders with how to measure student soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and sstudent soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and schools.