Reading achievement refers to a student's ability to read and comprehend text at an appropriate level for their age, grade or educational standard.
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Ultimately we hope that our findings will contribute to successful policy actions and effective policies designed to enhance the early
reading achievement of the nation's children in the new millennium.
While we've seen gains in math achievement, we have seen only modest improvements
in reading achievement in grade four, and minimal, if any, in grades eight or twelve.
One psychology study has shown that children who are given access to books over the summer perform 35 — 40 % better
on reading achievement tests than those without access to books.
The preparation of teachers in the area of reading education is a primary concern of those who seek to
improve reading achievement in schools.
The grants will help schools improve
reading achievement by providing students with increased access to current school library materials; technologically advanced media centers; and professionally certified media specialists.
According to staff, this combination of approaches contributed to gains in
student reading achievement at the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade levels for the following two years.
These reforms and interventions should be judged not just on their immediate impacts but also by their effect on fourth -
grade reading achievement.
Another study dug deeper into the relationship
between reading achievement and science achievement to look more closely at how reading difficulty affects scores.
The study includes observations of math and
reading achievement at 9 and 10 different points in time, respectively.
How do the contexts of homes, communities, classrooms, and schools support high levels of
reading achievement among primary - level children?
The deeper insight, however, is that men do not, at least on the surface, seem to place value on
high reading achievement.
According to an AP article published yesterday afternoon, boys trail girls in
reading achievement as much as 10 percentage points in some states.
The recommendations in this guide reflect not only our expertise and experience but the findings of rigorous studies of interventions to
promote reading achievement.
The central questions are whether effective television viewers also tend to be good readers, and whether preschool comprehension skills that are developed in the context of television viewing relate to
later reading achievement.
In addition to the big ideas of reading, skills that directly
impact reading achievement can and should be a part of the reading block.
Low - income students lose more than two months in
reading achievement during the summer, while high - income students, on average, see reading gains during the summer.
Watch this research - driven session to learn how to use early literacy best practices to
boost reading achievement and give young learners the best start in school — and in life.
The fact that math and
reading achievement results are overly narrow and easily distorted makes them particularly poor indicators of quality and weak predictors of later - life outcomes.
From 2000 to 2007, the percentage of low - income students at the lowest level of
reading achievement fell from 62 percent to 50 percent.
As you'll see in our next post, research indicates that reading only short texts is connected with below -
average reading achievement.
The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly associated with math, science, and
reading achievement across countries.
This is consistent with a number of studies that show larger effects in math than in reading, presumably
because reading achievement is more strongly influenced by family and other factors besides schooling.
Our research has found that a wide range of instruction spanning eight or nine grade levels of
reading achievement exists in the average third or fourth grade class.
Further research exploring the
relative reading achievement of 15 - year - olds, across 55 countries, found no significant evidence that an early start brings later benefits.
Years of treating reading as a discrete subject or a skill — teaching it and testing it that way — have arguably
set reading achievement in reverse.
Yet these fine - motor and coordination skills seem to be an important part of brain development that improves math and
reading achievement years later.
The researchers gathered performance data to assess
individual reading achievement, and created composite scores based on overall school performance data to assess school effectiveness.
The implication is that women can be motivated by communicating that funds from a successful referendum will be allocated to
address reading achievement.
Results support the use of oral reading fluency assessment as a valid tool for identifying students at risk of not passing the
statewide reading achievement test.
In recent years, we have seen a revival of effective schools research, most likely due to widespread national concerns about
student reading achievement.