Sentences with phrase «read on grade»

Ms. Barrett has been wonderful and has helped my daughter read on grade level and assists in figuring out 10 year old social issues.

«This kind of solid foundation is what we need in order to reach the goal I announced last week: by 2025, three out of four 3rd - graders will read on grade level.

«The goal of Reading WonderWorks is to close the achievement gap among students, help struggling students develop foundational reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.»

A study conducted by the UEPC showed that first, second, and third grade students in Utah who were chronically absent during the school year were significantly less likely to read on grade level at the end of the year.

«Children who enter kindergarten with a solid foundation for learning are more likely to read on grade level by third grade and keep pace with their peers.»

For example, the district's own goal is that 80 % of all 3rd graders will read on grade level.

My goal was to help kids read on grade level.

Reading proficiency at third grade is a critical predictor of future success, with 96 percent of students that read on grade level at the -LSB-...]

While 42 percent of white fourth - graders read on grade level, only 16 percent of black youngsters do.

Read to Achieve: Several fixes to the Read to Achieve program, which keeps students from advancing to the fourth grade if they can not read on grade level, were included in the House budget.

According to the Georgia Department of Education's standards, roughly half of Forrest Road's students couldn't read on grade level then.

But asking a third - grader to read on grade level is different than asking all students to score at least a 26 on the ACT.

Students are more likely to show mastery on standardized tests, read on grade level, and graduate high school.

Will it take that long to read on grade level?

Today 36 % of our 3rd grade students read on grade level, and 11 % of our students are graduating college - ready.

Even students who read on grade level may have trouble learning from their textbooks.

At my son's school 9 out of 10 kids can't read on grade level.

The inability to read on grade level has «a snowball effect,» says Cindy Puryear, Houston's director of elementary literacy.

A child's ability to read on grade level by the end of third grade is a strong predictor of school performance, high school graduation, and college entry and graduation.

The program's goal of ensuring that all third - graders can read on grade...

Many read on grade level, most don't skip school, and only one or two have significant behavioral issues, he said.

How can this teacher fairly be compared to her colleague in Simsbury, who teaches 18 students, all of whom read on grade level and go home to stable households inhabited by two college - educated, married parents?

«They want good test scores and kids to read on grade level,» said Hefner.

Mississippi's law does exactly that, but it also provides accountability for the small number of students who still can not read on grade - level before fourth grade.

In actuality, despite the label, the goal of the policy is to create multiple avenues to ensure that children do read on grade level by the fourth grade, the time in education when students transition from learning - to - read to reading - to - learn.

This legislation, which passed with overwhelming bi-partisan majorities at the time, was based upon the sound evidence that children who can not read on grade level by fourth grade begin a cycle of falling behind and are much more likely to drop out of high school, and experience a spiraling set of consequences that often lead to unemployment and incarceration.

We have schools in New York City where less than 13 % of Black males are graduating and can read on grade level.

Another grave concern for educators is the academic gap that would be left by teacher assistants that are primarily tasked with making sure students read on grade level by the third grade — presumably still a significant goal for Senator Berger who was a key driver in the state's Read to Achieve legislation that mandates all third graders read on grade level or be held back from advancing to the fourth grade.

Students in grades 3 and 4 had the District's highest level of proficiency at 8.3 percent, which indicates that the District's focus on helping students to read on grade level by third grade is yielding results over time.

In five years, 80 % of third graders are supposed to read on grade level; today only one in three do.

Looking at the nation as a whole, somewhere between 30 and 40 % of children can read on grade level.

Illustrations by Blair Kelly Once upon a time, teachers taught students to read on grade level in elementary school.

He said the goal is to make sure every child reads on grade level by the third grade.

Those policies include a ten - year plan, $ 81 million to make computer science a requirement in city schools, and a $ 75 million annual commitment to hire reaching specialists to get all students up to reading on their grade level by the end of second grade.

The day after he won reelection in November, Mayor de Blasio said, «We have to achieve 3 - K in the next four years... We have to get our kids reading on grade level by third grade.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

They're an earnest bunch and they offer an attractive, teacher - friendly, alternative vision to the data - obsessed ed reform triumphalism that has the firm upper hand in education at present, yet too often defines well - educated as «reads on grade level and graduates on time.»

But college - for - all is another example of the kind of unrealistic, aspirational moon shot (like every child reading on grade level by 2014) that education reform seems powerless to resist.

All of my kids who are currently reading on grade level will now be considered below grade level.

IEL partners with national organizations on a range of issues including chronic absenteeism, school readiness and reading on grade level by the end of 3rd grade.

Students who are chronically absent in early grades are at risk of not establishing a foundation for learning — for example, not reading on grade level — and setting out on a course that can lead to grade repetition, behavioral problems, and eventual dropout.

A strong early care and education system, starting at birth and continuing into a child's early elementary years, is the foundation to ensure that children are reading on grade level by the end of 3rd grade, a key «learning moment,» when they begin reading to learn, rather than learning to read.

The fourth group, led by the paraprofessional, contained about 11 (mostly grade 2) students reading on grade level and worked primarily from the district - adopted reading series.

The same reviews also provide compelling evidence that children who do not learn to read fluently and independently in the early grades have few opportunities to catch up to, and virtually no chance to surpass, their peers who are reading on grade level by the end of third grade.

Finally, the plan to eliminate the waiting list for pre-kindergarten students over the next two years is a huge win for early childhood efforts throughout the state, and will reap great rewards for the state's efforts to have every child reading on grade level by the end of third grade.

In a 2014 report, called «Opportunity Mississippi,» the governor wrote, «My «Third Grade Gate» literacy measure... will improve literacy achievement by ending social promotion of third grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this policy is fully implemented, we will gain a better understanding of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.»

What is Glendale Union solution to helping high school students who are not reading on grade level?

Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters (PDF), and Early Warning Confirmed (PDF) by The Annie E. Casey Foundation point to the importance of ensuring students are reading on grade level by the end of third grade.

In addition, 90 % of grade 3 students will be reading on grade level by 2032.

This work is critical to ensuring that their children are reading on grade level by third grade — a key predictor of school success, high school graduation and future success in life.