Sentences with phrase «own language conventions»

But parents will not receive their child's reports until mid-October after a production error saw the national average placed in the wrong spot on the results for the language conventions test in years 5 and 7, which tests spelling, grammar and punctuation.

NAPLAN tests students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 every year on reading, writing, language conventions and numeracy.

We had made a positive improvement across all assessments in reading, writing and language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation).

In their study, up to 43 per cent of the variance in written composition was explained by the three language conventions — leaving a large percentage unexplained.

«Overall, results from the analyses indicate that between approximately 24 per cent and 43 per cent of the variance in written composition was explained by the three language convention measures and that spelling was the main predictor of written composition for each cohort.

They'll also work toward curriculum standards such as mastery of language conventions, appropriate word choice, providing specific evidence to support claims, and more.

In our view, Foorman and her colleagues have limited their attention to too small a part of literacy learning, just the part indicated by «AP» (alphabetic principle) within the language conventions area displayed in Figure 1.

Specifically, we wanted to create meaningful and rich literacy experiences for these students — experiences that stimulated their higher order and critical thinking, while still maintaining a place for instruction in basic skills in language conventions.

This work is from a series differentiated by acronyms as all of Ann Pibal's work — a language convention that reflects her highly distilled approach to abstraction: RBWC is a suite of five paintings on a gold background that constitute a single celebratory multi panel piece.

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Despite the fact he couldn't speak the language, Paine was elected to the French National Convention, where he became an enemy of the more radical Montagnard faction.

«It's not unreasonable to think that Congress used the English language according to its conventions,» he wrote, before proceeding to explain each verb in the statute and how the adverbial prepositional phrases modify them.

Congressional investigators have interviewed ex-Donald Trump aides and advisers including J.D. Gordon, the national security policy representative at last year's GOP convention, about the campaign's push to remove proposed language from the 2016 Republican platform that called for giving weapons to Ukraine.

It is also subverted in various ways in the New Testament: Paul, for example, plays with its emotive language and conventions in a striking way (as in Rom.

His concern, he said, was an SBC - affiliated bookstore carrying a film with language that the convention teaches is inappropriate.

So the use of this convention also expresses the ultimate mystery of God, and acknowledges that our language and symbols can never adequately grasp the being and will of God.

Ignorance and the proper use of capitalization and punctuation are also inversely proportional — meaning the more intelligent a person, the better is the use of grammatical conventions in his writing, and the less intelligent, the more cavalier he is with his use of language.

However, no such language appears in subsequent articles, leaving it unclear whether the convention means to regulate abortion.

To follow these conventions faithfully is evidence of respect both for language and for those to whom it is directed.

Since linguistic signs are matters of historical and cultural convention, when language presents itself as natural rather than drawing attention to its own arbitrariness, it may get granted unquestioned status as the expression of what is real and abiding.

LifeWay Christian Resources, a division of the Southern Baptist Convention, had been selling the DVD at its 165 stores for two years with a sticker warning its patrons of strong language.

In a rare unscripted moment at the Democratic National Convention this week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote to pass an amendment to the party platform reinstating language that identified Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and that referred to people's «God - given potential» in its preamble.

Or to use the language that Jesus himself used, it's the narrow way, as contrasted with the broad way of convention.

Northrop, by changing the rules of evidence in the light of the philosophy of science, claims that language is not simply a linguistic convention but is a report on reality.

We must look instead to something more publicly accessible» that is, to the language of the Constitution itself and the conventions governing that language.

Leaving aside the (still interesting but tangential) issues of whether rule 40b can be amended prior to convention; OR lawyering of its language to benefit specific candidates; the question I have is:

Yesterday, in wording of a much stronger language on their stance opposing gay marriage, the draft from the Republican Party will address in the Republican National Convention next week, the party will make their anti-gay marriage stance clear:

As the WSJ has reported, WFP leaders were not satisfied with the wording Cuomo used in his pre-recorded video statement to the convention, and refused to move forward until the governor appeased them by using «agreed - upon language» during a backstage conference call.

For the future, a Convention can revise the Constitution to modernize the language of the Convention Question and require its prominent placement.»

The only reference to a potential constitutional convention I could find in the proposed budget legislation is language setting contribution limits for delegate campaigns.

While the initial draft required that any changes be made by amendments, some participants at the convention that wrote this constitution argued that legislators should be free to determine their own pay and submitted new language that would allow this.

After Cuomo declined to attend the convention — opting instead to issue a speech via video (and later calling in on speaker phone)-- and initially balked at including all of W.F.P.'s desired language in his statement, the vote was postponed.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has had an uneasy relationship with some public - sector labor groups during the early years of his administration, blasted the case in similar language this week when speaking at a convention for the Transport Workers Union in Las Vegas.

Republican delegates gathering in Cleveland ahead of the party's nominating convention approved a draft of language for the formal GOP platform that proposes a wall that would cover «the entirety of the southern border and must be sufficient to stop both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.»

Leaders instead settled on language that dramatically increased the amount of money an individual could donate to the national party committees for special accounts to pay for conventions, buildings and recounts.

Being able to publish papers is crucial for any academic to further their career, but it's an avenue that can be difficult to access for those no longer affiliated with a university, unfamiliar with international publishing conventions, or struggling to write in a second language.

But as the Syria case unfolds, there have been some conflicts between the language of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the U.N. resolution — brokered by Russia and the United States — that gives the OPCW authority to destroy Assad's arsenal.

Learning to play a musical instrument or to sing can help disadvantaged children strengthen their reading and language skills, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 122nd Annual Convention.

The 2 °C target was reaffirmed in the 2009 «Copenhagen Accord» emerging from the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention [11], with specific language «We agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science, as documented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report with a view to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius...».

While Sendai Tourism, Convention and International Association (SenTIA) and Miyagi International Association (MIA) are among the groups that bridge the city's local and foreign communities, offering language classes and cultural exposure.

It also means possessing an informed knowledge of the film's complex and dense «language,» its conventions, codes, symbols, cinematic attributes, and other factors.

Not only do the Coens honor the traditions and touchpoints of their»40s predecessors, they also subvert convention and reinvent visual language to serve the story.

Leaving the language barrier aside, the accessible story is communicated clearly and briskly, with plenty of vivid, unambiguous character work; its pert challenges to dominant conventions lie in the realm of representation, not narrative or patience.

A bold new leap in Persian - language cinema, UNDER THE SHADOW repurposes the conventions of genre storytelling into frightening new form, delivering an emotionally pulverizing experience in fear that also functions as gripping sociopolitical commentary.

Plans are to debut the second language campaign at next year's national convention in San Antonio, Texas.

As Checker Finn once noted, they respect basic skills, mathematical computation, the conventions of the English language, good literature and America's founding documents.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 15 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 93 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (21 sheets) Unit's lessons include: * Introduction to the AQA GCSE Media Studies course requirements * Introduction to the four key concepts * Activity focused on pupils» own consumption of media texts * Detailed research into the history of the media - creating a timeline of people, technology and institutions * Applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to film media * Introduction of camera shots, angles and movement * Film terminology «speed - dating» to introuce key media language * Analysing a mise - en - scene * Analysing a film trailer: genre conventions and audience appeal * Creating genre - specific typography and writing a commentary * Analysing logos and slogans * Exploring stereotypes in the media * Music industry terminology and genre features * Analysing a CD album sleeve: genre conventions and audience appeal * The history ofvideo gaming * Video gaming genres and gratifications * Analysing a video game cover: genre conventions and audience appeal

Republicans drafted a party platform for adoption at their national convention in New York City this week that reflects in language and spirit the stamp that George W. Bush first placed on the GOP's education positions four years ago.

A missing period at the end of a sentence might make teachers cringe, but it's a real - life example of how readers and writers develop a shared understanding of what conventions mean and how language works in patterns.

13 - 16 — Foreign language: Annual convention, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French, for French teachers at all levels, to be held at the St. Anthony Hotel in San Antonio, Tex..

«Proficient» work in written communication «communicates effectively with awareness of audience and purpose; writing is coherent, adequately organized and developed; provides a variety of details, quotations or examples to support claims; demonstrates adequate control of sentence structure with appropriate use of language and word choice; reflects fundamental control of the conventions of written English and is generally free of errors.»