Sentences with phrase «reading demands»

The dropout rate was 13 percent, and many of those who left school did so because they could not keep up with high school reading demands.

The officer then read a demand for testing at the station and eventually arrested Mughal for refusing to provide a breath sample.

After reading the demand letter, Laarakker told his client not to worry about the letter and that he would take care of it.

One of the most startling claims is: «Despite steady or growing reading demands from various sources, K — 12 reading texts have actually trended downward in difficulty in the last half century.»

After reading the demand letter, the recipient should have a clear understanding of the sender's issue and how best to settle the matter.

The researchers categorized questions on the TIMSS assessment by their reading difficulty or reading demand level: low (32 % of all questions), medium (38 %), or high (30 %).

On reading this demand we Stan, Ivan and the board hereby relieve Arsene Wenger of his Managerial position of the Arsemal football team.

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«I think introducing new texts which young school children are going to read demands great skill» (Clay, 1991) Participants will explore how rich introductions support children in becoming independent readers.

Reading achievement, phonics, and whole language are not in themselves interests, but become so when those who care about reading demand that the government promote their values by means of public policy (e.g., Baumgartner & Leech, 1998; Salisbury, 1991).

The Big 5 have been operating an antiquated business plan that has failed to take into account changing technologies and changing reading demands from their customers.

In between opening an investigation into your personal injury claim and making an initial settlement offer, the claims adjuster may have interviewed witnesses, studied police reports, reviewed your medical records, and read your demand letter.

But it is also very important to provide ways for her to manage the complexity of reading demands.

When the Home Office told the men they would read the demands and return for a meeting, they gave up their protest.

For both the middle and the lower reading terciles, the decrease in average percent correct between low reading demand and high reading demand was only 6 %.

The performance of students in the upper tercile of reading skill changed very little as the reading demand increased — this group averaged 66 % correct on both low reading demand and high reading demand questions, dropping slightly to 63 % with medium reading demand questions.

Students in the upper reading tercile answered 66 % of the low reading demand questions correctly and 62 % of the high reading demands, a decrease of only 4 %.

There was more variation with the middle reading tercile, whose average percent correct decreased by 3 % between low reading demand and high reading demand questions.

This pattern was true regardless of the level of reading difficulty — and the average percent correct for each group did not drop precipitously as the reading demand increased.

Further analysis found the inter-tercile difference for high reading demand questions was significantly different from the inter-tercile difference for low reading demand.

Yet, it is in middle school grades when the reading demands in subject area classes increase.

In fact, MetaMetrics» research on K - 12 reading demands and ultimately those of the postsecondary world are annotated in the text complexity «staircase» in the Standards» English Language Arts Appendix A.

Long before the Common Core movement, The Lexile ® Framework for Reading played an important role in articulating the reading demands typically encountered in first grade through college and careers.

The effort is to diminish the reading demand so that the mathematics demand is what is being measured.

In order to minimize the reading demand of some mathematics materials, some parts of a Quantile assessment are built with Lexile measures that are traditionally below expected reading levels of the students addressing the work.

The ACT researchers found through their research, published as «Reading Between the Lines,» that our typical high school graduates, even though fully qualified for college by their grades and either SAT or ACT scores, were still demonstrably unprepared for the reading demands of either the college classroom or the typical workplace.

The ACT researchers examined three levels of reading demands: simple text, more difficult text and complex text.

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After smelling alcohol in the car, he read a demand for a breath sample.