Sentences with phrase «primary grade reading»

These findings are similar to those from our study of primary grade reading instruction in schools beating the odds (Taylor et al., 2000), in which we found that word - level activities were infrequently observed in grade 3, and that comprehension skill or strategy work was seldom observed in grades 1 - 3.

In contrast, in our earlier study of primary grade reading instruction in schools that were beating the odds (Taylor et al., 2000), we found that small - group, rather than whole - group, instruction across grades 1 - 3 was characteristic of the most effective schools.

In - the - moment decisions in primary grade reading: The role of context and teacher knowledge.

In Ethiopia, for instance, LSI faculty have been working for five years under the direction of Research Triangle International to improve primary grades reading outcomes by improving the quality of pre-service teacher education throughout the country, training hundreds of teacher educators and developing training modules in seven local languages.

To this end, USAID is implementing primary grades reading projects around the world.

Not exact matches

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

These results suggest that motor skill training during early childhood may contribute to reading skills in boys during the first grades of primary school,» says Dr Eero Haapala from the University of Jyväskylä.

Social studies is often neglected in the U.S. primary grades, and although literacy typically gets lots of attention at this age, informational reading and writing often do not.

Teachers also plan to use a tool designed to assess the reading fluency of primary students with below - level readers in grades 4 - 6 to see how their needs can be addressed, said Poplar.

This is particularly the case for EL learners, who typically master decoding and build reading fluency during the primary grades when basic stories are used, but who are more likely to struggle as the language of middle and high school text becomes more complex and more discipline specific.

Where, she wondered, «is the research to support: close reading, increased Lexile levels, the use of informational texts, and other questionable practices in the primary grades?»

Assisting Students Struggling With Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention for Reading in the Primary Grades (PDF)(NCEE 2009 - 4045).

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

The primary educational outcomes for this study were standardized math and reading scores and grade repetition.

That took a little more effort — extra time in the college's lab school, extra courses in reading instruction and children's literature, extra emphasis on teaching in the primary grades.

Her work with the city's schools has shown her that over and over, children who read well in the primary grades have been falling behind and struggling with texts.

Fifty three per cent of 11 - year - olds made the grade in reading, writing and mathematics in this year's primary school SATs, meaning 47 per cent of pupils are considered not to have made the grade in the three Rs by the end of their primary years.

Fifty three per cent of 11 - year - olds made the grade in reading, writing and mathematics in this year's primary school SATs, meaning 47 per cent of pupils are considered not to have made the grade in the three Rs.

At the start of 2013, six out of 10 K - 6 students at Medina Primary School were reading and writing at a five - year - old level or not working at a grade level.

This study examined an instructional method rarely used as a form of integration at the primary - grade level - interactive read - alouds of informational text - in order to determine the degree that this intervention might simultaneously build kindergarten students» knowledge of economic concepts and content literacy in low - SES settings.

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While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.

It explores in detail how literacy can be fostered from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading.

This activity demonstrates the range of ways that a primary source can be adapted and modified for students at different grade levels and reading levels.

In the recent national report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, a National Academy of Science Committee concluded that «quality classroom instruction in kindergarten and the primary grades is the single best weapon against reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin,Reading Difficulties in Young Children, a National Academy of Science Committee concluded that «quality classroom instruction in kindergarten and the primary grades is the single best weapon against reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin,reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998).

The purpose of the present study was to examine the instructional and organizational factors that might explain how and why some schools across the country are beating the odds by attaining greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement with populations of students at risk for failure by virtue of poverty.

They worked together, worked with parents, and worked with a positive attitude to reach the goal of all children reading well before they left the primary grades.

On the other hand, Stevenson had no externally developed early reading intervention but did have locally developed safety nets for struggling readers in the primary grades.

All 3 of these schools were nominated by district administrators as typical rather than above average for the district in terms of primary - grade students» reading achievement.

It is clear from this study that a combination of sound building decisions and collaborative efforts as well as effective practices within individual classrooms are needed if schools are to succeed at beating the odds in terms of primary grade students» reading achievement.

Standards for primary - grade reading: An analysis of state frameworks.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

The committee recommended that our number one priority for funding research should be to improve classroom reading instruction in kindergarten and the primary grades.

The Primary level (2nd - 4th grades) is suitable for most third and fourth graders and for second graders who are reading to learn, not still learning to read.

We used quantitative and descriptive methods to examine the programs and practices in 11 moderate - to high - poverty schools selected because of their dual reputation for implementing recent reading reform and for beating the odds by promoting greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement.

Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to intervention and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades.

In other words, there is no single quick answer to the question of how best to reshape a school's reading program and the repertoire of instructional practices teachers employ in of the quest of helping all children read well by the time they leave the primary grades.

In America, no educational issue is of greater national significance than ensuring that all children learn to read — fluently and with comprehension — in the primary grades of elementary school.

Lessons and accompanying mentoring notes designed to provide reading tutoring as a primary activity during mentoring sessions with 3rd grade students at different reading levels.

Although most children learn to read by the time they exit the primary grades of elementary school, there are many children that do not achieve an appropriate level on this crucially important process.

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Reading and writing grade by grade: Primary literacy standards for kindergarten through third grade.

In kindergarten through third grade, the primary goal is to teach all students to read fluently and to comprehend a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections that relate to all areas of the curriculum.

In order to support all students» reading development, it is essential that primary grade teachers (i.e., K - 1) understand the key components of reading, how to measure them, and how to use assessment data to design instruction for each student's reading instruction needs.

◦ that the charter school ensures that reading is a primary focus of the curriculum, and that resources are provided to identify and provide specialized instruction for students who are reading below grade level

High Noon Books: publishes high interest, low level books written on a 1st through 4th grade reading level for struggling readers in primary and secondary grades.

When you read more about success for all, you will see it is primarily focused on the primary grades, 1 to 4.

Imagine primary schools where schools are not measured on on a 4th grade reading level but rather the number of children reading on a college level.

More recently, the state's release of the 2011 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) scores — Florida's primary measure of student achievement of the Sunshine State Standards — showed that Brevard's sixth grade students ranked first in Florida in both reading and mathematics, and in June the district was honored for the third consecutive year by the Association of School Business Officials for financial excellence.

Reading instruction for the primary grade gifted student.