Sentences with phrase «of grade level reading»

Demonstrate good comprehension of grade level reading material (e.g., make predictions, retell main idea, identify supporting details)

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Consumer contracts and terms of service should be limited to a certain length and required to be written at a sixth - grade reading level.

I just think some Christians are lazy and don't want to read more about the totality of scripture and delve deeper into interpretation... we prefer a grade 3 reading and comprehension level in many aspects of Christianity.

They say most of you read at an eighth grade level - giving you too much credit lol.

Either you don't read well above 6th grade level or your inability to differentiate and discern is hampered by your Total ignorance of the Bible.

All anyone has to do is go read either the Grace Commentary or any of Wilkin's third - grade reading level articles at faithalone.org.

That around 12th grade, out of the remaining children who have not dropped out or been expelled, 84 percent of them can't read at grade level.

I was surprised to learn that more than 47 % of U.S. children are below grade - level reading.

According to a study by Byers, Dillard, Easton, Henry, McDermott, Oberman, and Uhramcher (1996), students at Urban Waldorf went from having 26 % of third grade students reading at or above grade level in 1992 to 63 % at or above grade level in 1995.

Things that I would look for in an evaluation of a child for a reading disorder is, what's their rate of reading, are they reading at grade level, what's their reading comprehension, and what's their reading vocabulary.

My 7 year old reads on a 4th grade level and is in the middle of 3rd grade math.

While gifted children are capable of reading, speaking, and even reasoning above grade level, those abilities may not always be used in positive ways.

Studies indicate most students will lose about two months of a grade level in math skills and low - income students lose more than two months in reading.

Elia said the improvements to the standards include increasing the complexity of reading materials for each grade level and helping children to better learn how to read things like technical manuals for information, as well as developing an affinity for reading fiction and literature.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

In Yonkers, 4 out of 5 students can not read or do math on grade level — they need a Senator, too.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

Louise Slaughter: «By 4th grade, 86 percent of African - American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.»

Says «by 4th grade, 86 percent of African - American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.»

The majority of them aren't reading at grade level as it is.

Those policies include a ten - year plan, $ 81 million to make computer science a requirement in city schools, and a $ 75 million annual commitment to hire reaching specialists to get all students up to reading on their grade level by the end of second grade.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

Commissioner Elia says the improvements to the standards include increasing the complexity of reading materials for each grade level, and helping children to better learn how to read things like technical manuals for information, as well as developing an affinity for reading fiction and literature.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

The average adult patient has an 8th grade literacy level but over 20 per cent of patients read at or below a 5th grade level.

Elementary school children who read below grade level may have challenges with their eyesight even if standard tests show they see 20/20, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.

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In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

For students with severe or «high» astigmatism, getting and wearing glasses may bring an improvement in reading fluency equivalent to one - half grade level, according to the report by Erin M. Harvey, PhD, and colleagues of The University of Arizona, Tucson.

For example, in 2011 only 67 % of American children read at or above the basic level on the fourth - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Misdiagnosis commonly happens when students start learning to read in the first and second grades, and as English - language learners continue through the grade levels, the demand for the application of such executive control processes such as working memory and language increases as reading comprehension requirements become more complex.

It reminded me of kindergarten, when I would feel proud after reading a book above my grade level.

The researchers found that students with intellectual disability who participated in four years of persistent, specialized instruction successfully learned to read at a first - grade level or higher.

After four years of the specialized teaching the researchers found that students with mild or moderate intellectual disability could independently read at the first - grade level, and some even higher.

He has an IQ of below 70, he reads at the first grade level.

At the start of eighth grade, I was reading at a second - grade level.

Jubilee students are reading at grade level within a year of arriving; they are then outperforming their peers on standardized TerraNova tests.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

The 2011 8th - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that only 18 percent of Hispanic students and 14 percent of black students read at or above proficiency levels.

To begin with, it takes a few years of teaching to really understand — let's say, if you teach ninth grade — what the median skill level is for a group of 14 - year - olds (reading, writing, speaking, thinking, emotional, etc.) There's a saying: «Teach to the middle.»

Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working - class.

That is, as Anderson recognizes, «a very lofty aspirational goal, considering that we have about a third of our kids reading at grade level by the 3rd grade, and that we graduate about 55 percent of our kids, and only 23 percent of those do so by passing high - stakes tests.

The state also invested substantial support for early readers and focused on retaining 3rd graders who fail to read at grade level; state law allows for, but does not require, those students to be held back, which both Skandera and Martinez criticized as insufficient in a state with exceptionally low rates of adult literacy.

While it's true that Common Core emphasizes «close reading» of grade - level texts, this should not be the only type of reading kids engage with.

The year hasn't gone very well; because you are reading and doing math at a sixth - grade level, much of your coursework is a struggle.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

Statewide, more than three quarters of 4th graders read below grade level, the same share of 8th graders are below grade level in math, and nearly one third of high - school students drop out.

In 2014 - 15, we not only exceeded national performance levels on all grades for NWEA, but we were second for growth in reading and math in our network of high - performing schools.

While we've made some gains at the 4th - grade level (probably reflecting better instruction in decoding), reading - achievement trends by the end of high school are depressingly flat.