Considering the obvious fact that children who don't read will not make significant gains in reading ability, many felt that digital reading was contributing to a lowering
of reading comprehension test results, due to the availability of other forms of entertainment to be had through the device.
This type
of reading comprehension test can be challenging for children with expressive language disorders.
Not exact matches
Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range
of measures
of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures
of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings
of school performance; standardized
tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.
Compared with normal children and those with dyslexia, the dyscalculic children struggled on almost every numerical task, yet were average on
tests of reading comprehension, memory and IQ.
The two companies independently revealed that their artificial intelligence systems beat humans at a
test of reading comprehension.
Second - and third - grade students using the Seeds
of Science / Roots
of Reading units made significantly greater gains in understanding science concepts, knowledge of science vocabulary, and reading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life science
Reading units made significantly greater gains in understanding science concepts, knowledge
of science vocabulary, and
reading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life science
reading comprehension, as measured by
tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life science units.
A 1942 study in Iowa discovered that girls were superior to boys on
tests of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and basic language skills.
The
comprehensions cover: Biographies
of Harry and Meghan Information about Harry's parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana Details
of the wedding The birth
of Prince Louis As with all
of my
reading products, they contain a range
of questions with an indication
of marks on offer to help students as they prepare for
tests.
As a result, English language learners may score in the 80th percentile on a word
reading test, but in just the 19th percentile on a
test of reading comprehension.
Students were also given a range
of standardized
tests assessing
reading comprehension, word
reading fluency, and vocabulary.
If a student determines, with the help
of a resource specialist, that he or she has difficulties with
reading, that student is responsible for requesting an accommodation such as extra time on a
reading -
comprehension test.
Only about one in four
of the high - school graduates who took the American College
Testing (ACT) program's college - readiness
test last year met the benchmarks in
reading comprehension, English, math, and science.
The words introduced are: Une salle de classe Une chaise Un tableau Un lecteur DVD Une règle Une porte Un stylo Une trousse Une fenêtre Un ordinateur Un cahier Une clé USB Un crayon Une horloge Un livre Un cartable Une table Une gomme Une carte 1st page introduces the vocabulary with pictures (pictures from cnpd.fr) 2nd page: match up pictures with words 3rd page: unscramble the words / decide if masculine or feminine / word search 4th page: label the picture (can be used for
test) 5th page:
reading comprehension (match text with pictures (credits at the end) + vocabulary extension for those who finish early 6th page: answer the questions: work on c'est / ce sont + write the items in the school bag 7th page: write the items in the school bag (end
of exercise) + transform sentences into questions + transform sentences into negative sentences.
The benefits
of reading with an explicit plan for engagement,
comprehension, and memory include greater class comfort and participation, greater understanding
of what is
read, increased memory
of the text, and a reduction in the amount
of rereading or review needed for
test time.
This 1st Grade
Reading Fluency and
Comprehension passages include: - story retelling activities Word Families: # 1 - ack # 2 - ail # 3 - ain # 4 - ake # 5 - ale # 6 - ank # 7 - ash # 8 - ate # 9 - aw # 10 - ay # 11 - eed # 12 - ell # 13 - est # 14 - ew # 15 - ick # 16 - ide # 17 - ight # 18 - ill # 19 - ine # 20 - ing # 21 - ink # 22 - ock # 23 - oke # 24 - ook # 25 - ore # 26 - uck # 27 - ump # 28 - unk # 29 - ame # 30 - compound words # 31 - compound words # 32 - compound words This is GREAT practice for
testing while also providing a lot
of fluency practice!
*** Includes 129 original
reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency pr
reading passages and
comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11
Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency pr
Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track
of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for
testing while also providing a lot
of fluency practice!
This 23 - question multiple - choice
reading analysis /
comprehension test / quiz on «Fame Is a Bee» by Emily Dickinson and «April Rain Song» by Langston Hughes has questions from different levels
of Bloom's Taxonomy (revised).
And I'm not just talking about sticking them in some suspiciously named Acme - Higher - Learning - A + - Little - Stanford Academy that offers math and
test prep and
reading comprehension practice in a windowless room, taught by someone who makes commission on the number
of As your student returns with on one
test or another.
We also used the Iowa
test of Basic Skills
reading comprehension subtests.
In the year 2000, American kids scored much higher than kids in Poland on
tests of reasoning, math, and
reading comprehension.
For instance, University
of Michigan psychologist Harold Stevenson found a correlation
of 0.52 between the ability to name the letters
of the alphabet on entering kindergarten and performance on a standardized
test of reading comprehension in grade 10.
Recent assessments
of school - based pre-K programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia indicate that they substantially raise children's vocabulary, math, and
reading comprehension test scores at the end
of one year.
Two large (and largely overlooked) problems remain at the root
of the
reading crisis: a lack
of a coherent elementary school curriculum, and a stubborn insistence on teaching and
testing reading comprehension as a how - to «skill.»
Each
test is made
of a
Reading Comprehension, a writing teask and a few grammar points such as present tense, prepositions, adjectives and pronouns.
In one
of these studies they find: «Whereas the early math and
reading tests focused mainly on procedural knowledge, the general knowledge
test focused mainly on declarative knowledge (i.e., elementary knowledge or
comprehension of the external world).
When the knowledge demands
of reading tests are unknown, it encourages teachers to devalue knowledge and prepare students by teaching
comprehension «skills and strategies,» which are
of limited value.
This 21 - question multiple - choice
reading analysis /
comprehension test / quiz on «Abuelito Who» Poem by Sandra Cisneros has questions from different levels
of Bloom's Taxonomy (revised).
It took results for eleventh graders on an established
reading comprehension test and assessed their correlation to several measures
of their general knowledge, not knowledge specific to the passages on the
test as the baseball study had done.
This 25 - question multiple - choice
reading analysis /
comprehension test / quiz on «The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be» Poem by Nikki Giovanni and «Child on Top
of a Greenhouse» by Theodore Roethke has questions from different levels
of Bloom's Taxonomy (revised).
Renaissance Learning's Accelerated Reader quizzing software not only assesses which books are being
read, it also
tests children's detailed
comprehension of their chosen books.
In a study tracking children from age 3 through middle school, David Dickinson, now a professor
of education at Vanderbilt University, and Catherine Snow, an education professor at Harvard University, found that a child's score on a vocabulary
test in kindergarten could predict
reading comprehension scores in later grades.
While these words have precise definitions in the field
of psychometrics, the experts essentially want the same thing parents and teachers want: a math
test that doesn't measure students»
reading comprehension but whether they can add fractions; an English
test that doesn't measure what students know about the Revolutionary War but how well they can use sample text to support an argument.
A stubborn belief in
reading comprehension as a transferable skill combined with the immense pressures
of testing and accountability results in ever more time being wasted on scattered, trivial, and incoherent
reading.
The children with dyslexia improved significantly in
reading ability, as measured by
tests of real word
reading (Word Identification), pseudo-word decoding (a measure
of phonological awareness)(Word Attack), and passage
comprehension (Table 2).
These questions move beyond
comprehension and
test students» understanding
of the significance
of the texts they
read.
Now consider building knowledge: Individual teacher accountability on a fourth - grade
reading comprehension test, for instance, is unfair because children's
comprehension depends on what they've learned every year, in school and out (a
reading test is a de facto
test of background knowledge); it's also unproductive because it lets the early - grade teachers off the hook if they don't contribute by teaching the knowledge - building subjects.
This collection
of four guided
reading activities, aimed at 10 to 14 year olds,
tests children's
comprehension, retrieval, inference and deduction skills through some intriguing stories from the soldiers at war.
Reading comprehension is being placed at a premium in NCLBs compulsory battery
of tests.
The bottom line:
reading comprehension is a slow - growing plant, and the demand for rapid results on annual
tests may be encouraging poor classroom practice — giving kids a sugar rush
of test preparation, skills, and strategies when a well - rounded diet
of knowledge and vocabulary is what's really needed to grow good readers.
Students take a standardized
reading comprehension test at the end
of the school year to assess their
reading level and a survey to see what books they find interesting.
The text passages on
reading -
comprehension tests are randomly chosen, usually divorced from any particular body
of knowledge taught in school.
(e.g.
Reading comprehension influencing the results
of a science
test.)
A US Department
of Education analysis
of results from the 2011 national
reading tests shows that Virginia students have larger vocabularies and stronger passage -
comprehension skills than their peers nationwide.
Fariba Hooshyar, University
of Khurasgan, Isfahan, Iran, Toward an Intelligences Fair ESL
Reading Comprehension Test.
During the half - year pilot, researchers refined and
tested reading models and instructional strategies to improve
reading comprehension of all CTE students, even those who struggle with
reading for content knowledge and solving problems.
Ratliff, a Los Angeles school board candidate who was recently elected to the union's House
of Representatives, said she frequently reviews raw
test scores for concrete information about specific skills her students are struggling with, such as grammar or
reading comprehension.
This
test measures performance in the areas
of verbal skills, math,
reading comprehension and essay writing.
Overall, the learning gains
of students who used Achieve3000 were statistically significant and substantively important for all areas assessed: the GMRT - 4 Vocabulary,
Reading Comprehension, and Total Reading tests, as well as the LevelSet Lexile reading asse
Reading Comprehension, and Total
Reading tests, as well as the LevelSet Lexile reading asse
Reading tests, as well as the LevelSet Lexile
reading asse
reading assessment.
When your third grader just isn't up to par with
reading comprehension (you know that he or she is struggling because
of a lack
of interest in books, poor
test scores, and teacher input) what are you supposed to do about it?
In these fixed - delivery assessments, students are
tested in
reading comprehension and asked to write equations, graph functions, draw lines
of symmetry, and create bar graphs.