Sentences with phrase «of reading comprehension tests»

This type of reading comprehension test can be challenging for children with expressive language disorders.

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.

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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 scienceReading 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 sciencereading 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 prreading 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 prReading 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 asseReading Comprehension, and Total Reading tests, as well as the LevelSet Lexile reading asseReading tests, as well as the LevelSet Lexile reading assereading 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.