Support families and communities to make reading a priority and reinforce the efforts of the schools to improve
student reading competency.
Whether you are a teacher, school principal, parent, or someone interested in literacy, there are some
basic reading competencies that need to be taught and mastered to foster reading proficiency.
Drive families and communities to make reading a priority and reinforce the efforts of the schools to improve
student reading competency.
Similar digital activities and individualized strategies are employed to help students master the requisite
reading competencies for science coursework.
In GPE partner country Nepal for instance, enhancing early
grade reading competency is now one of the country's key priorities for improving the quality of education.
Dr. Brenner points out that, to support struggling students, Apex Learning employs adaptive scaffolding that builds
foundational reading competencies in specific areas of social studies.
The new policy allows schools to substitute an assessment of English language proficiency for the assessment of
reading competency during a student's first year in U.S. public schools.
We find no significant differences in student achievement effects by topic area in reading; that is, NCLB accountability did not appear to have significant effects on student achievement in any of the three
reading competencies.
But Dr. Putallaz and others also blame federal and state policies that pressure schools to concentrate their resources on getting children to minimal math and
reading competencies.
I started out with two goals: to improve
the reading competency levels of students with disabilities, and to enhance teacher knowledge of effective instructional strategies for struggling readers.