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This video provides an overview of the Read Naturally Strategy, which combines three research - proven principles in a powerful intervention strategy that improves reading proficiency through individualized instruction.

Over the two - year study, 57 percent of students saw gains in reading proficiency through access to high - quality books, enriching resources, books for summer reading, and professional development.

Most English language learners and students with disabilities are exempt, and other low - performing students are permitted to demonstrate reading proficiency through a portfolio of work.

Not exact matches

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

Children are then offered lots of books at their «just right» level on the theory that if they read extensively and independently, language growth and reading proficiency will follow, setting the child on a slow and steady climb through higher reading levels.

For example, while every student should leave school being able to read, only 10 percent of students with disabilities in NYC demonstrated proficiency in English Language Arts on last year's third through eighth grade state exams.

In 2005, Illinois Standard Achievement Test results for grades 3 through 8 showed a proficiency level of 76 percent in reading and 81 percent in math.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

By now you've probably read lots of studies confirming that the road to math proficiency and greater math achievement for all students, regardless where they are on the learning curve, is through Blended Learning and personalized instruction.

The law mandated that every child in every school would take standardized tests in reading and math from grades three through eight and would achieve «proficiency» by the year 2014.

The report highlights Elvehjem Elementary School, which saw its third - through fifth - graders» combined reading proficiency improve from 40 percent to 46 percent in one school year.

Prerequisite skills and capabilities include, but are not limited to, proficiency in reading a range and type of material, with an emphasis on informational texts; fluent writing in several modes, most notably expository, descriptive and argumentative; quantitative literacy through algebra and including geometry, combined with the ability to understand and interpret data; a understanding of the scientific method and some insight into the organization of knowledge in the sciences; an awareness of how social systems operate and how they are studied; basic proficiency in a second language and awareness that languages reflect cultures; and experiences in and appreciation of creative and expressive arts.

Students in the project — English learners who meet school benchmarks for English proficiency — will receive intervention to improve reading skills, and researchers will collect information through brain imaging and genetic and cognitive testing.

A study in one major metropolitan school district found that students participating in the PATHS program * in grades 3 through 6 were more likely to achieve basic proficiency on their state's achievement tests in reading (grade 4), math (grade 4), and writing (grades 5 and 6), compared to students who received limited SEL instruction.

All public school districts and charter schools that enroll K - 2 students must annually submit data on reading proficiency for all students in Kindergarten through Grade 2, and develop a Local Literacy Plans that guides the work toward all students reading well by the end of third grade, a required component of districts» World's Best Workforce Plans.

The World Languages Proficiency Project will help the Modern and Classical Languages Department provide students with effective tools (technological and non-technological) that will help them explore their language of study through reading, summarization, and storytelling, and discover talents that they will be able to transfer to their learning in other disciplines.