Sentences with phrase «reading across the grade»

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

The More Kids Read, the Better They Read: Motivating Kids to Read School - Wide With the NEAs Read Across America event just around the corner (March 2) and Get Caught Reading Month coming up in May, this is an ideal time to share some super new resources you can use to encourage reading across the grades.

Rather, 70 percent of student reading across the grade should be informational.

Education Equality Index Scores are calculated using proficiency data from annual state assessments taken by students in math and reading across all grades tested.

NAEP: No district scored significantly higher than Miami - Dade in reading across grade levels.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

Rory was older than me by a few years — just old enough that every move she made was aspirational: her expansive reading list (which I actually saved on my computer and tried to follow), her perfectly worded banter, her sublime grades, and — let's be real — the fact that every boy she came across seemed to fall madly in love with her.

Lesaux's 2010 report, Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success, formed the basis for a third - grade reading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy plReading Success, formed the basis for a third - grade reading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy plreading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy planning.

They are especially important for young men when one considers that the percentage of 6th - grade teachers who were female ranged from 58 to 91 percent across four core subjects (math, science, reading, and history).

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

32 Vigorous exercise can lead to academic gains; many kids drinking alcohol by sixth grade, study shows; students read about bays and keep track of miles as they run across America.»

For example, when reviewing reading scores across the 4th grade, they found that many of the students were struggling with the concept of summarization.

The Common Core State Standards in literacy suggest a lot of changes to the way reading and writing should be taught across grades and subjects.

Fifth - grade lead teacher Joshua White looks at student performance on each «strand» of standards in reading, writing, and math, both within his own class and across the grade.

Gov. Bush's recommendation to the legislature builds on last year's Middle Grades Reform Act, which provided hundreds of new reading coaches in middle schools across the state.

Work with teachers across grades to establish a summer reading list for the entire school.

Figure 11 shows no significant difference between the reading scores of fourth - grade students in Texas and in the nation as a whole, except in 2003, and minimal improvement across the board.

Each state's score (averaged across the tests in math and reading in the 4th and 8th grades) is reported in months of learning, compared to an overall average adjusted score of zero.

School - based reward programs that offer students such incentives as cash, free MP3 players, or other gifts appear to produce improved reading achievement across grade levels, preliminary findings from an ongoing research project suggest.

Program present 25 great ideas from teachers — ideas that are sure to get kids across the grades excited about reading.

«Overall, across all grades, we found that implementing any SIG - funded model had no significant impacts on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment.»

For those teachers and their students, Education World offers the following additions to its extensive library of lessons emphasizing reading skills and enjoyment across the grades.

What's disappointing is that 4th - grade reading results have held steady since 2007 — after a big bump up (across all achievement levels) from 2005 - 2007.

Since 2009, aside from PISA reading, the percentage of German top scorers has dropped in every math and science measure across age groups — fourth grade, eighth grade, and age 15 — as well as fourth grade reading.

But at the 8th - grade level, standards are falling across the board — in both reading and math, and among both the states that had standards in 2003 and the states that have only adopted them more recently.

If you haven't come across a money system created by fifth - grade teacher ~ Rafe Esquith ~ you need to read his second book «Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire.»

It is her hope that the Lead Early Educators for Success series will follow the same path as her prior set of briefs, Lead for Literacy, currently being used across the nation for literacy planning, including underpinning a statewide plan to improve third - grade reading outcomes in Arizona.

Georgia fourth - grade teacher Faye Smith puts a new spin on Read Across America projects!

Read — and Pedal — Across America Georgia fourth - grade teacher Faye Smith's PAUSE (Pedal Across the United States Every day) program pairs reading and cycling.

Teachers agree, and they offer their thoughts on using read - alouds in classrooms across the grades.

It creates coherence across classrooms and grade... Read more»

Today, Clifton Public Schools has standardized Accelerated Reader 360 across grades 2 — 11, Star Reading in grades 2 — 8, and the Renaissance English in a Flash ® vocabulary - building program in ESL classes.

Logit (natural log - odds) of the percentage proficient for all students, reading and math, across grades.

Moreover, looking at the absolute performance of our students on the 2011 NAEP — rather than relative to other states — fewer than half of NJ students were deemed «proficient» across fourth - and eighth - grade math and reading.

(Two measures, one each for reading and math, combined across grades.

First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things — including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad «instructional shifts,» along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)-- that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.

Word recognition work and reading practice were much more the focus of reading instruction in grades 1 - 2 across all schools in this study than was comprehension.

The state's progress from 2011 to 2015 was remarkable, with gains in both reading and math, in both fourth and eighth grades, and across all major racial groups.

Options might include testing reading annually, but eliminating stakes; testing decoding up to grade four; or substituting subject - matter tests to encourage teaching across content areas.

In reading, the across - cohort comparisons suggest a narrowing of the gap through 7th grade, after which the gap remains stable.

Student achievement scores were uneven across grades and subjects: strong in grade 3, but weak in grade 4; strong in reading but not in writing.

While not universal across all teachers, there is a definite trend, in the most effective schools, for grade 1 and 2 teachers to combine (a) explicit phonics instruction in isolation with (b) coaching students to use a range of strategies to figure out unknown words when they encounter them in everyday reading.

Rochester school district officials say they are increasing the emphasis on literacy at all grade levels, including hiring 31 additional reading support and intervention teachers in schools across the district for the upcoming school year.

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.

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.

Keep in mind that about a third of TMA's entering ninth - graders start off at or below a fifth - grade level of proficiency in math and reading, and come from 50 to 60 different middle schools across Washington, Pardo adds.

A majority of grade 1 and 2 teachers across levels of school effectiveness were frequently observed teaching phonics in isolation, including working with words on a whiteboard, chart, or worksheet; working with word cards dealing with word study or word families; making words; writing words; and reading words with a particular phonic element.

Herein lies the conundrum for educators in low - performing schools across the nation: If a student arrives in fifth grade reading like a first grader and makes three years» worth of growth, he still will not pass a grade - level state test despite major progress and clearly effective teaching.

«The National Board is grateful to have the opportunity to work with partners across the state of Mississippi who are committed to ensuring that all children can read at grade level,» said Ronald Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board.

Through the support of the program, the school is starting to see gains in student achievement, with scores increasing across all grades in reading and writing over last year.