Sentences with phrase «poor reading skills»

We believed this constituted an emergency for our school; students who enter high school with poor reading skills are more likely to drop out.

For example, poor reading skills in the early elementary grades are highly correlated with later delinquency.

Children who have poor reading skills at the end of first grade are unlikely to bridge the gap in later years.

Obviously, poor reading skills affect society as well as the individual.

The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

Governor Haslam has wisely invested Tennessee dollars into literacy initiatives in 2016 because he knows poor reading skills are connected with unfavorable life outcomes.

If you are poor, than an indie title may do the trick, but poor people usually have tremendously poor reading skills and don't have the same type of access to books that nobility traditionally had.

A new Finnish study now shows that a high body fat percentage is associated with poor reading skills in 6 -8-year-old boys.

Focusing on academic issues are the less strident but still determined critics who say many non-native English speakers are graduating from school systems with poor reading skills in both English and their native language.

He added that poor reading skills could result in children dropping out of the education system at a later stage and becoming «disruptive and ill - disciplined».

«Although adiposity was linked to poorer reading skills in boys, these associations were mainly explained by poorer motor skills that often accompany adiposity.

Neglected children are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to have poorer reading skills than their cared - for peers.

Alternatively, it may be that students who were retained specifically because of their poor reading skills are particularly poor in that subject and that this limits their room for improvement.

Offenders in their mid-teens have poor reading skills, with over half of these having literacy skills below the expected level of an 11 - year - old.

The school concluded that poor reading skills were contributing to early school leaving, disruptive and antisocial behaviour and poor performance across almost all areas of the curriculum.

Illness is still the No. 1 reason that students miss school, and too many absences contribute to weaker social - emotional skills in kindergarten, poorer reading skills in third grade and higher dropout rates.

«Most of the kids coming out of high school have relatively low problem - solving skills; they have poor math skills, poor reading skills, and poor communication skills,» said Mr. Whitley, vice president of training and development for Tyson Foods Inc..

The school concluded that poor reading skills were contributing to early school leaving, disruptive and antisocial behavior and poor performance across almost all areas of the curriculum.

Focusing attention on decoding for children with poor reading skills: Design and preliminary tests of the word building intervention.

«The gap often begins in primary schools, with poor reading skills a barrier.

If your writing and editing skills are anything to judge by, you are showing extraordinary arrogance to claim that poor people have poor reading skills.

I absolutely don't excuse what the authors did who acted out of ignorance and poor reading skills to take down LendIt.

Poor reading skills may also increase the chances of becoming a teen mom.

Then uproot the non-climatologists, poor reading skills, and the purveyors of bad science one at a time.