Sentences with phrase «reading age of»

This year it seems the team have moved onto another... Continue reading Age of Mythology Lives!

The FAST LANE series is intended for use with reluctant readers aged 13 — 15 years, but who have a reading age of 6 - 8 years.

An earlier and smaller EEF - funded randomised trial found Accelerated Reader increased the reading age of pupils by 3 additional months.

Five years ago, thirty percent of students entering seventh grade at the school scored below a reading age of ten.

Similarly, a reading age of 6.4 or knowledge that a child performed at the 75th percentile for their age provides little or no information about the child's reading skills.

Some of our recent testing data suggests the mean reading age of kids in detention is less than 10 years of age, and that's for a mean age group of about 15.6 [years of age].

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

But we also have a significant proportion of our cohort who are functioning below the Certificate I level - kids who might have a reading age of eight or nine years of age - so we're spending a lot of energy trying to develop teaching resources for those students.

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In Britain, the fact that 30 per cent of 16 - year - olds have a reading age of 14 or less has helped to prompt massive educational changes.

Two - fifths of those behind bars have a reading age of an 11 - year - old, 59 % regularly truanted from school and 42 % were expelled.

Two fifths of all prisoners have the average reading age of an 11 - year - old.

Studies have suggested that the reading age of children in schools under flight paths is below the national average.

Smaller trials resulted in an improvement in pupils» reading ages of between three and five months.

We read all ages of childrens books, young adult books, as well as novels for adults and.books about writing an dthe creative processes.

Not exact matches

It works for any age group and you'll take more out of it each time you read it.

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

It's the second of four in the series, but it's the one I read first, around age 10, so it's the one I love most.

It's a great story to read along to at any age, but I particularly loved seeing a group of friends in a vulnerable time in life (and a hyper - vulnerable station in life) come together and show each other the loyalty they couldn't get anywhere else.

Ninety - four percent of Americans aged 18 - 49 now read news on mobile devices.

It stretches across an array of disciplines — math, science, reading, writing, critical thinking — and across a broad swath of customers, kids aged 2 to 12.

Keep it up by reading books like The Art of Communicating, by Thich Nhat Hanh and How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age, by Dale Carnegie and Associates.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

Mean test scores in reading (Programme for International Student Assessment) Mean test scores in science (Programme for International Student Assessment) % of those aged 25 - 64 who have attained tertiary level education Education expense, % of GDP

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

So, in theory at least, serving anti-abortion ads to women of child - bearing age who have been reading about abortion online and who come near an abortion clinic is a spot - on example of how marketing should work when it's well tuned.

No one will even read your epic novel of a plan in this age of short bursts of information.

Finally, don't put this issue down without reading «Making It Work,» Jeff Chu's moving profile of five businesses leading the fight against a quiet social crisis — the growing number of people on the autism spectrum who come of working age every year.

«Read at least 30 minutes a day, listen to relevant podcasts while driving and seek out mentors vigorously,» writes Tucker Hughes, who became a millionaire at just the age of 22.

That kind of stimulation can be anything from reading to crossword puzzles or attending lectures and playing memory - based games, according to the National Institute on Aging.

To get short the markets I either have to go to cash or buy a bond fund, which admittedly turned out quite well (Read: The Proper Asset Allocation Of Stocks And Bonds By Age and see VUSUX).

But now, it's almost laughable if you don't own an iPhone or Android, and for some of... Read More at the youngest of ages.

Though the action takes place well before the 18th century, there are hints of the movement from the thinking and institutions of the middle ages — dogmatic, mystical,... Read more

I've been reading an historical novel — World Without End by Ken Follett — and it's got me thinking about how Western civilization evolved from the middle ages to the age of enlightenment.

In case you haven't heard or read for the 10th time today, we're in the age of digital disruption: AI, Internet of Things, Bitcoin, the cloud, cyberhacks.

And so when I read Ben Graham, sort of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could about what he had written, both security analysis and the intelligent investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort of the rest is history, it's a very good age, you know I was younger than 21 at the time you know junior year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my life.

We bought our first house in 2009 (while still in college, read more about how I bought a house at the age of 20).

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But what constitutes a reasonable profit in this age of low... Continue reading →

The crisis engulfing the global steel industry is so severe that one of China's top producers has warned a new Ice Age has set in as mills confront overcapacity and Continue Reading

The «30 + middle - age crisis»: Three - quarters of tech workers in China are younger than 30, and recruiters... Read more

It made me feel my age when many of the managers interviewed in Hedge Fund Market Wizards said how inspirational it was to read Market Wizards when they were in school!

Investors that are not capable of evaluating a business quantitatively or qualitatively must make it absolutely clear to their portfolio manager that they are interested only in defensively selected investments, regardless of age or wealth level (for more information about the specific tests that should be applied to each potential security, read Seven Tests of Defensive Stock Selection.

It's a pity Wildrose MLA Derek Fildebrandt hadn't read Jane Jacobs» Dark Age Ahead before he launched into his description of how the ancient Romans dealt with governments that were, in his words, «beyond redemption».

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I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

I need to read some more, starting with the links you provided — «The Integral Theory of Truth and Reality» from the Crisis of our Age by Sororkin.

Which brings me to my point: Why would any intelligent person take tales from the bronze age (or read out of a hat for that matter) for real?

anyone who has read and understood the mountains of evidence for evolution and compared it to a contradictory, fanciful, error riddled story book written by bronze age desert dwelling goat herders and come up on the side of the bible, clearly hasn't understood the science.

One reading of Tocqueville is... that much of the Middle East remains in the aristocratic age: the individual not yet having emerged into the light of day, men and women understand themselves in terms of their affiliations.