Sentences with phrase «of reading proficiency»

As amended, the law required, among various other provisions, retention in grade 3 with intensive interventions for students who did not exhibit the requisite level of reading proficiency.

Before and after the program, their brains were scanned with MRI and they were given some commonly used tests of reading proficiency.

The combined impact of reading proficiency and poverty on decreased high school graduation rates.

But, how do we go about doing that when we know that students read on such varied levels of reading proficiency?

The report paints a similarly discouraging picture in terms of reading proficiency — just 17.4 % of 3rd graders, 10.1 % of 8th graders, and 14.4 % of high school students with disabilities were able to meet the proficiency mark (all down by at least 25 percentage points from 2011 - 12).

The four states with the next highest levels of reading proficiency among white students are New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Colorado.

The analysis showed that higher teacher reports of the presence of goals, processes, and supports believed necessary for school success were not generally linked to higher rates of reading proficiency, math proficiency, or attendance rates.

The Million Word Challenge is designed to address the issue of reading proficiency and to help students develop habits that will make them successful students.

FastBridge Learning supports students in the process of becoming readers by providing assessment tools that measure all five areas of reading proficiency.

What we found was a lack of reading proficiency undermining students» performance across the entire curriculum.

Other measures of reading proficiency that are already in place in North Carolina classrooms and were submitted as alternative assessments to meet the Read to Achieve requirements include the Discovery Education Reading / Language arts assessment, Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments, and ClassScape, among many others.

The state board will likely select either middle school dropout rates, for which data can be problematic, or a blend of reading proficiency in 3rd grade and 8th grade math — two early indicators that point to whether students are on track for college.

Further, that the ambition of teachers should not be confined to the achievement of a basic level of reading proficiency, but should instead look at the multiple ways we can help children use the full repertoire of the English language.

The report paints a similarly discouraging picture in terms of reading proficiency — just 17.4 % of 3

Graded assessments and accompanying certificates have been developed at five levels of mathematics proficiency (and also at five levels of reading proficiency) which are not linked to specific years of school.

A local literacy «plan must include a process to assess students» level of reading proficiency, notify and involve parents, intervene with students who are not reading at or above grade level, and identify and meet staff development needs.

Given the way textbooks are often used — what I have called «assign and assess» usage — we might profitably consider purchasing content textbooks written at students» independent level of reading proficiency (Budiansky, 2001), where students misread just 1 or 2 words in every 100.

Only 28 percent of SAUSD tested students scored at basic levels of reading proficiency — and just 19 percent in mathematics.

The percentage of prisoners in the two lowest levels of reading proficiency is 70 % (National Institute for Literacy, 1998).