Sentences with phrase «of words per minute»

I tested my Apple Magic Keyboard against my WASD keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches, and I was actually faster with the Apple Magic Keyboard by a couple of words per minute, on average.

Not exact matches

There have been thousands of words of criticism, from pundits and Arsenal fans alike, blaming last weekend's defeat to Chelsea on Per Mertesacker for getting himself sent off in the 20th minute, but Arsene Wenger has come out in defence of the Big Flippin German saying that he has also been Arsenal saviour in the past, but he does agree it was a mistake by the experienced defender.

I sometimes shuddered imagining the sort of advertisements that would be run on this theme, if money and time were no object: «Let's have Oliver Letwin in the foreground spouting gangster rap at 120 words per minute, and in the background we'll have Nicholas Soames and John Redwood break - dancing... yes, perfect!»

We found that the speech rate dropped significantly over time, from 148 words per minute in the first sample to 137 in the second to 106 in the third — an overall decrease of more than 28 percent.

The software can determine whether the people are actually at their desks as well as very nuanced metrics of their computer usage, from number of words typed per minute and mouse clicks to where their eyes go on the screen.

Stephen's rate of speech is down to about one word per minute, and while I am making slight advances in the technology he is using, the nerve decay has now reached the point where we need to move to some new technology.

One analogy for these results might be the question of who can type a paragraph «better»: a 16 - year - old who glides along at 60 words per minute but then has to double - back to correct a number of mistakes or a 70 - year - old who strikes keys at only 40 words per minute but spends less time fixing errors.

In a study published this September in Nature Medicine the group used the BrainGate system, to achieve the highest published performance of «virtual typing» by a person to date — which translated to approximately six words per minute, still much slower than the average typing speed.

Typists rummaged around with one or two fingers while looking at the keyboard, and Sholes was ecstatic if the resulting typing rate reached a measly 20 or 30 words per minute, the rate of writing by hand.

For a beginner to reach a speed of 40 words per minute, the person would need 56 hours of training on a QWERTY keyboard (an average of four hours per day during my two weeks of chicken pox) but only 18 hours on a Dvorak keyboard.

She was gratified by the positive fan mail she received for Torchy, and justifiably proud of her ability to spout out 390 words per minute in the role, but Farrell decided to leave Warners and free - lance after five «Torchy Blaines.»

In a Canby fourth - grade classroom of sixteen students, from the fall to mid-year assessment of reading fluency, when average increase in word count per minute (WCPM) is 12, the average in the iPod classroom was close to 20.

*** 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 practice!

*** 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 *** The passages and comprehension questions in this packet are designed to help you meet both your specific English / Language Arts standards and learning expectations as well as those recommended by the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSS).

«The students can progress from reading twenty words per minute to seventy words per minute,» Rodriguez says of Reading Assistant's results.

«I set a goal of three words per minute for third graders and around seven for fourth and fifth graders,» said Patterson.

Children in between, who read 15 — 29 minutes per day, will encounter an average of 5.7 million words — less than half of the high - reading group but nearly four times that of the low - reading group.1

At graduation, their peers who averaged less than 15 minutes of reading per day are likely to be exposed to only 1.5 million words.

In the fall (for grades 2 — 3) and spring (grades 1 — 3) students were assessed on words correct per minute on a grade level passage, retelling on an instructional level passage, and a word list (again comprised of common sight words and some words with predictable spellings).

The number of correct words per minute from the passage is the oral reading fluency score.

Reports provide a summary of both Words Read Correctly (WRC) per minute, accuracy, qualitative features, and error types for both screening and progress monitoring applications.

Under the «Fall» and «Spring» columns are the students» scores (number of words read correct per minute) for those benchmark seasons.

The students» rates of improvement are listed under the column titled «Growth,» which indicates how many words read correct per minute the student gained from fall to spring per week.

One student in Tier 2 of Response to Intervention increased from 30 words per minute to 96 and is now on grade level — in just 3 months!

When he read the book, «Because of Winn - Dixie,» which has a dog as one of the main characters, he increased his reading speed by more than 25 words per minute.

For every 10 % increase in the coding of coaching in word recognition strategies, students» fluency score increased by 8.9 words correct per minute on average.

If we note that students increased their scores by an average of 20 words correct per minute per year (see Table 7) and that school scores on the collaborative leadership scale ranged from 1.1 to 1.9 with a mean of 1.7 (out of a high score of 3), then we can surmise that, at least in principle, a school gaining one additional point on the collaborative leadership scale could make up a year's worth of fluency performance.

For every 10 % increase in the coding of higher - level questioning, students» fluency scores increased by an average of 8.8 words correct per minute.

The child and adult continue Steps 3 and 4 until the child achieves a predetermined number of words read correctly per minute (number of words read correctly divided by time).

Assessments included a standardized reading comprehension test (grades 1 - 6) as well as tests considering letter - name knowledge (K - 1), rhyme (K - 1), phonemic awareness (K - 1), word dictation (K - 1), concepts of print (K - 1), fluency (words correct per minute; Deno, 1985)(1 - 6), and writing (responding to a common prompt)(1 - 6).

For every 10 % increase in the coding of active responding, students» fluency score increase on average by 5.4 words correct per minute.

For every 10 % increase in the coding of small - group instruction, students» fluency score increased by an average of 2.1 words correct per minute.

In the fall, children in grades 2 - 6 were individually assessed on fluency (words correct per minute) based on their reading of a BRI passage (Johns, 1997) that was one grade level below their grade placement.

For every 10 % increase in the coding of phonics instruction, students» fluency score decreased by 3.0 words correct per minute on average.

For every 10 % increase in the coding of a teacher - directed stance, students» fluency score decreased by a mean of 4.0 words correct per minute.

For example, for a student who is below grade level in reading fluency, the goal may be to read at a rate of 80 words per minute, rather than the grade - level expectation of 150 words per minute.

The teacher administers an oral reading fluency assessment, listening to each student read grade - level passages and calculating the number of words and average words per minute the student has read correctly.

«Fluency measures such as words correct per minute has been shown, in both theoretical and empirical research, to serve as an accurate and powerful indicator of overall reading competence, especially in its strong correlation with comprehension.»

To determine if a student needs a reading fluency intervention, compare his or her average words - correct - per - minute (wcpm) score from two or three unpracticed readings of grade - level assessment passages to oral reading fluency norms, such as the Hasbrouck - Tindal Oral Reading Fluency Norms.

Instead, the school takes steps to create its own data, including a monthly test of the number of words students can read per minute.

The instructor deducts the number of errors from the total words attempted, the examiner arrives at the number of correctly read words per minute (WCPM).

For example, by the end of first grade we want all children to read at least 40 words correct per minute on a first grade reading passage and demonstrate a level of reading comprehension that is commensurate with this level of fluency which on the DRA is a Level 18 or higher.

Instead, a school team might find that a 2nd grade student is reading grade - level passages at a rate of 20 words read correctly (WRC) per minute compared with the expectation of 45 WRC for 2nd grade students at that point in the school year.

Well, typing non-stop for 40 hours at the average typing speed of 40 words per minute, you would get about 96,000 words.

And with Spritz working on its new proprietary speed - reading app that may get you up to 500 words per minute or higher (I confess, as an «industry reader,» I'm intrigued), you might start seeing a morsel of Tolstoy from Lee and Love as pretty spacious stuff when it lands on your iPhone as the cock crows.

The essence of the platform is to allow users to crank up how many words per minute a body of text will produce.

According to Forbes.com, the average adult reads at a rate of 300 words per minute.

She had so much fun writing her first novel, Love, that she is industriously burning up her keyboard at her top speed of twenty words per minute, composing her next work of Christian fiction.

I bet I can almost type up to my lightning fast speed of 80 + words per minute with it.

Designed to minimize eye movement, which takes up as much as 80 percent of your time spent reading, the developers of Spritz claim that the tool can help you read at a rate of up to 1,000 words per minute.