Sentences with phrase «on assigned readings»

In high school, we procrastinated on assigned readings that either puzzled us (Heart of Darkness), gripped us (The Poisonwood Bible) or both (Beloved).

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Here's my problem with bit.ly's report (I'll stop assigning blame to Lori here, she's just reporting what she read): Their conclusions are based on peak and non-peak times.

When I was in first grade, teachers assigned students to reading groups based on how well they could read.

Then there is the material on the recommended reading list, supplemental reading list, and related topics reading list, that students get assigned.

In a graduate course I had been assigned to read some sections on the virtues from the Summa Theologica and then, in addition, to read Pieper's The Four Cardinal Virtues.

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

I began reading him in 1970, when his classic, A Rumor of Angels, was assigned in a course on Revelation and Faith — and I kept reading him for over forty - five years.

To some degree, teachers base this on observation, but few children will be assigned a reading level or to a reading program without a more formal assessment of their skills.

Once there, beginning to settle into her assigned cabin, she looked on the wall in the bunk she had chosen and read «Ezra S. 2014» (along with a silly nonsensical Ezra poem, and an Instagram signature.

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Also, on days when your child does not have any assigned homework, this shared reading time will reinforce the habit of a work time each evening.

b. Begin assigned readings, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg, Hold on to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté and complete reading the text for the course, Attached at the Heart; and

«There is no excuse for an aircraft operator to forcible remove any person who has paid for an assigned seat on such aircraft,» read the bill memo, which goes on to note that people often make «specific arrangements» to travel and interruptions can be «extremely inconvenient.»

March 5: DNAinfo's Heather Holland reported on a public elementary school, P.S. 116, that stopped assigning traditional homework to its students and encouraged them to play, read and socialize with family instead, sparking outrage among some parents.

After recruiting a sample of 587 demographically diverse parents and their first - grade children in the Chicago area, they randomly assigned some families to use a math - based iPad app that involved reading short stories and answering questions on topics such as counting, shapes, and problem solving.

This method is obviously unable to provide precise readings which has led manufacturers to assign very conservative limits on maximum charging speed or intensity to ensure the battery isn't damaged or worst case suffers catastrophic failure.

In one online experiment, the researchers assigned 1,003 participants to watch a video, read step - by - step instructions, or merely think about performing the «tablecloth trick,» which involves pulling a tablecloth off a table without disturbing the place settings on top.

The students who used their assigned strategy correctly had the highest scores on their science tests, even when the researchers controlled for students who had better reading skills to begin with.

Assigning the numbers 1, 2, 3 to the colors blue, green, gold, respectively, the Yang - Baxter equation reads: R12 R13 R23 = R23 R13 R12, where Rij denotes strand i crossing strand j — the two sides of the equation being depicted on the two ends of the scarf, with equality represented by the middle portion.

At the best of times, this was like doing a Where's Waldo puzzle; at the worst of times, it was like answering an essay question on an exam for a class for which you hadn't done any of the reading: «Compare and contrast the current defensive coverage with the pass routes assigned to the play in question.

However, we previously reported that the bioinformatics algorithm would incorrectly assign a small fraction of sequenced DNA reads to chromosome Y in pregnancies with female fetuses.24 The percentage chromosome Y values of all studied pregnancies are shown in appendix 7 on bmj.com.

«Homework» is assigned to help you apply what you have read to your life, and is commented on by the teachers who supervise and support all student process work.

As you know, I quite often read and review books for TLC Book Tours, and those books are reviewed on assigned dates.

In Aloha, a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper) returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs — the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii — and reconnects with a long - ago love (Rachel McAdams) while unexpectedly falling for the hard - charging Air Force watchdog (Emma Stone) assigned... Read On

Each public school is assigned a grade based on the performance of its students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading, math, and writing.

After students finish reading an assigned text, they post one of the following on the class website: a genuine question about what they read and a short attempt to answer it, a passage that resonated with them and a short explanation of why, or a pattern they identified with a short explanation of what that pattern implies about the whole text.

Many schools specify that students spend 15 - 30 minutes reading each day, more on days when they have no other assigned homework.

The role of leader at the elementary school and middle school levels could be assigned to a teacher at each grade level for reading, writing, social studies, and so on.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

To isolate the effect on student learning of the language of instruction, the researchers followed students who were all learning reading via the Success for All curriculum but were randomly assigned to structured English immersion or transitional bilingual education.

The second part of that advice might seem obvious and unnecessary, but we all know those students who fail to carefully read the question or prompt and then too quickly write about a vaguely related topic; or those who believe essays are graded on word count and prefer to write a lot about a topic they know well — or everything they know about a variety of topics — rather than risk writing too little about a less familiar, though assigned, topic.

After students have read and understood the assigned topic, they can go on to the next step of the essay - writing process.

Students who were assigned to read Hamlet or A Christmas Carol did no better on tests of their knowledge of the plays than did other students.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

• The Common Core asks teachers to assign texts that provide language complexity appropriate to the grade level, but significant proportions of teachers — particularly in the elementary grades — are still assigning texts based on students» present reading prowess.

On one recent morning Jordan recapped in detail several chapters of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which the students had been assigned to read the previous night.

Assigned a literal foot of readings, I was quickly brought up to date and speed on practically every issue on instructional leadership and the most current research behind it.

Children were assigned books based on their reading levels.

To practice their label - reading skills, on an assigned day have them bring in a grocery item from home that has corn in it.

In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.

During the last month of fourth - grade, 370 children were pretested on a measure of reading comprehension and vocabulary and randomly assigned to (1) a treatment group in which children received 10 self - selected books during summer vacation, (2) a family literacy group in which children received 10 self - selected books and were invited with their parents to attend 3 2 - hour summer literacy events, and (3) a control group.

Assigning paper - based quizzes ensures that almost all of the information on student mastery will be lost, while the software produced by a dozen or more firms is able to quickly read the results from electronically administered tests into an evolving portfolio of data that tracks student learning.

But it's still far below the recommended levels — the proportion of nonfiction books read independently varies from 13 percent to 31 percent based on gender and grade level — though the survey doesn't capture articles, essays, or other informational reading that students may be assigned in various classes.

We assign AR grades on report cards and on progress report cards they are assessment grades in reading.

Assign 3 or 4 students to a leveled reader based on their reading level.

If the student learning growth in a course is not measured by a statewide assessment but is measured by a school district assessment, a school district may request, through the evaluation system approval process, that the performance evaluation for the classroom teacher assigned to that course include the learning growth of his or her students on FCAT Reading or FCAT Mathematics.

I agree with you that good teachers recognize the value of phonemic awareness and phonological awareness, but if the curriculum they are assigned doesn't include it adequately and they didn't receive proper training on the essentials of reading instruction, it's left to them to make up curriculum out of whole cloth.

Suggestion for how to implement this lesson over two class periods: Depending on how you structure this lesson, an appropriate place to end the first part of the lesson is after students are assigned a reading to analyze.

Assign students to write a book review on the site or to create their own quiz for something they have read.