Sentences with phrase «poor readers»

The ability to self - monitor often distinguishes effective from poor readers in the secondary years.

Helping poor readers at the end of primary school, or the beginning of secondary school, is hard work.

Most of the story in the game is delivered through text so this isn't a very accessible game for poor readers.

The researchers found that baseball knowledge had a big impact on performance: Poor readers with a high knowledge of baseball displayed better comprehension than good readers with a low knowledge of baseball.

If schools are to help poor readers improve their skills, then it is important that we have a good understanding of the processes children go through in learning to read.

The discrepancy requirement ultimately denies special services to garden - variety poor readers.

Students who are poor readers typically exhibit strengths in the visual / spatial intelligence.

The result may be poor reader reviews, but it was thought that this might force readers to choose and therefore move to less expensive digital.

Teaching reading to poor readers in the intermediate grades: A comparison of text difficulty.

Lewandowski and Montali (1996) conducted a study that compared the learning of poor readers and skilled readers who were both taught through a text - to - speech application with simultaneous on - screen highlighting of the spoken word.

Research suggests that poor readers read poorly because they are taught poorly at the earliest grades, and the keys to solving this problem lie in brain research on the affective learning domain.

«Accumulation of research evidence such as ours may one day help us identify kids who might be at risk for dyslexia, rather than waiting for children to become poor readers and experience failure.»

hildren who are poor readers likely struggle with segmenting the multiple sounds in a word and with matching letters to those sounds.

The latter figures probably understate the problem, because many poor readers drop out of school before twelfth grade.

Explicit instruction in such strategies as questioning, summarizing, comprehension monitoring, and using graphic organizers can help poor readers learn to retain, organize, and evaluate the information that they read.

Jay Samuels, an American educational psychologist, found that poor readers given no pictures learnt significantly more words than those with the pictures.

Furthermore, the rate of development of the white matter highways differed in children based on whether they tested as good or poor readers years later.

Poor readers enter kindergarten lacking phonological awareness and word - reading skills.

Poor readers fall further and further behind their more literate peers in reading as well as in other academic areas.

With this book, you and your staff will learn: approaches to help poor readers develop good reading habits; ways to increase student interest in reading for pleasure; how to effectively incorporate reading into subject areas such as social studies, science, and math; examples of what works according to school personnel in regard to reading instruction; and how to motivate students to become engaged readers.

The study evaluated poor readers in the Everybody Wins!

«One must be ever - mindful of the fact that poor readers need more help than others in selecting interesting and easy books to read on their own,» said Marson in The California Reader.

And that tells us that the area of difficulty - the functional disruption - in poor readers relates to phonological analysis.

Cognitive profiles of difficult - to - remediate and readily remediated poor readers.

Because reading is key to success in school, poor readers face a trajectory of failure and decreasing motivation: Students who are not at least moderately fluent in reading by 3rd grade are unlikely to graduate from high school (Slavin, Karweit, Wasik, Madden, & Dolan, 1994).

Results revealed a statistically significant difference in concept comprehension performance, favoring the Frayer Model condition, for good and poor readers alike.

This study showed that experiencing the text bimodally (visually and aurally) enabled poor readers to perform as well as skilled readers in word recognition and retention.

In addition, teacher preparation standards require candidates to be able to «differentiate good readers from poor readers in light of those characteristics and apply that knowledge to effective intervention strategies for all readers.»

The O'Conner, Bell, Harty, Larkin, Sackor, and Zigmond (2002) study examines poor readers in intermediate grades who are receiving one - on - one tutoring.

Additionally, several studies have identified that poor readers demonstrate different profiles of abilities (Pierce, Katzir, Wolf, & Noam, 2007; Valencia & Riddle Buly, 2004; Wise et al., 2007).

Research demonstrates that additional direct instruction provided appropriately, beginning in kindergarten through third grade, can help all but the most severely impaired students catch up to grade - level literacy skills and close the gap for most poor readers.

Reluctant readers aren't always poor readers.

Eighteen per cent of students with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background were poor readers compared to four per cent of non-Indigenous students.

A sizable body of evidence indicates that poor readers exhibit disruption primarily, but not exclusively, in the neural circuitry of the brain's left hemisphere, the part that serves language.

«This is exactly what happens for millions of poor readers,» writes Willingham.

It enables the inference that other aspects of the reading and language arts program are as important as phonics instruction for poor readers at this stage.

Research suggests that poor readers read poorly because they are taught poorly at the earliest grade levels.

Assisted reading practice: Effects on performance for poor readers in grades 3 and 4.

Poor readers with high content knowledge outperformed good readers with low content knowledge.

Building skills around phonemic awareness and phonics is key, says James Kim, since children who are poor readers likely struggle with segmenting the multiple sounds in a word and with matching letters to those sounds.

Poor readers in higher grades could also benefit from peer tutoring — both as receiver and giver.

Religious people generally are poor readers.

He is slow and a poor reader of the game.

Speed: Poor readers are usually slow even after they become accurate.

Studied populations include normal listeners throughout the lifespan, clinical populations (poor readers; autism; hearing loss) and auditory experts (musicians; bilinguals).

For example, «the whole idea that musical training and language development may be connected came from me talking to a couple of teachers who said they had students who were poor readers and who also struggled with learning to play a musical instrument and with copying musical patterns and wondered if those two things could be connected.»

«The longer I do it, the more I realize that it's hardest for the poor readers,» she says.