Sentences with phrase «school reading intervention»

In a humorous look at the real world of DIBELS testing, an elementary school reading intervention coach chronicles how the focus on fluency (narrowly defined as reading speed) has pushed reading comprehension to the side.

In doing so, she gained valuable feedback from other teachers, modeled her own professional thinking and learning process to neophyte teacher researchers, and directly impacted student learning through her focus on improving the after school reading intervention program.

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Teachers and those responsible for linking the intervention to schools also felt that involvement in the intervention produced positive changes in reading behaviour and attitudes towards reading among participating children.

Primary school children who took part with their fathers in a simple literacy intervention promoted by the Fatherhood Institute, have been shown to have made better progress at reading, writing and numeracy.

Children who love to read, or who need reading intervention should contact the school reading teacher for a list of reading enrichment suggestions.

The intervention, short numerical story problems delivered through an iPad app, significantly increased children's math achievement across the school year compared to a reading (control) group, especially for children whose parents are habitually anxious about math.

In hopes of identifying factors that influence children's responses to reading interventions, the MIT team set up two summer schools based on a program known as Lindamood - Bell.

In their study, the researchers randomized 22 urban elementary schools serving low - income families to either the INSIGHTS intervention or a supplemental reading program, which served as a control condition.

I «ve read some of your posts mentioning school, that's what I do... reading intervention..

I have taught for 16 years in 4th grade, self - contained 5th grade, 6th - 8th Reading Intervention at the middle school level, and 12 years as a 6th grade ELA teacher.

It's been a remarkable experience contributing to research on adult, family, and adolescents; presenting and publishing research with faculty; and participating in Associate Professor James Kim's project on a summer reading intervention for elementary school students.

She recently moved into the position of Instructional Resource Teacher and 6 - 8 Reading Intervention Specialist at East Cary Middle School in Cary, NC.

We use reading and math test scores to judge the quality of teachers, schools, and the full array of pedagogical, curricular, and policy interventions.

Since NCLB began, math and reading interventions have taken the place of the arts in our schools, so I proposed that we integrate art across the disciplines and visit The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC).

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

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).

With the help of a Reading First grant and by adopting Response to Intervention (RTI), the school changed its instructional approach and began assessing students more often.

The school also is providing intervention school - wide to students in the upper grades who continue to struggle with reading.»

This first - of - its - kind initiative will explore the power of personalized interventions on improving children's literacy outcomes, and in doing so, may dramatically change how schools and families teach reading,» said HGSE Dean James E. Ryan.

They will develop and test a scalable, web - based screening tool for reading difficulties — that diagnoses the underlying causes — and a set of targeted home / school interventions that change the way we approach intervention for young children with reading difficulties.

Schools that did not bring their average reading and math scores above a certain level were put on probation and threatened with a series of interventions.

To avoid creating such exponential gaps, many schools around the country have begun to adopt models of early identification and intervention for children at risk for reading difficulties.

Delayed Effects of a Low - Cost and Large - Scale Summer Reading Intervention on Elementary School Children's Reading Comprehension.

Supportive interventions can help some students, but these interventions are often implemented too late (after years of reading failure, despite evidence that taking action is most effective in kindergarten and first grade) and haphazardly (schools and teachers often do not know what can work for various types of students).

It also required that all schools make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) to 100 percent proficiency in reading and math by 2014 and prescribed specific interventions for schools that failed to make AYP.

Much can be learned from the theoretical frameworks discussed here, which can be used as a guide for future research into the efficacy of computer - assisted reading interventions on struggling middle school students.

Quality Reading intervention programs have become a focus for schools throughout Tennessee.

For K — 12 education, he proposes programs to «recruit math and science degree graduates» to teaching and «ensure that all children have access to a strong science curriculum at all grade levels,» more funding for «intervention strategies in middle school» for «teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction, and extended learning time» — all to address the «dropout crisis.»

Teachers and reading specialists can utilize these strategies to implement RtI and multitier intervention methods at the classroom or school level.

But the star of the segment was Colleen Rau, a reading intervention specialist in the Oakland school district.

The chiefs are standing behind the key accountability elements of NCLB: the annual administration of statewide reading and math assessments in grades 3 — 8; the disaggregation of results; the annual determinations of school and district performance; and the identification of and intervention in persistently low - performing schools.

The secondary version covers: • Leading literacy across the school • Reading for enjoyment and wider reading • Developing teachers» reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the Reading for enjoyment and wider reading • Developing teachers» reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the reading • Developing teachers» reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the school.

The Obama administration will waive cornerstone requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, including the 2014 deadline for all students to be proficient in math and reading / language arts, and will give states the freedom to set their own student - achievement goals and design their own interventions for failing schools.

This intervention was compared to the usual school invitation to participate in the reading challenge, which the control Grade 1 classes received.

The study's findings provide support for a model of early identification and intervention for all children at - risk for reading failure; the classroom teachers and school resource teachers provided intervention three to four times a week for 20 minutes.

Schools where 11 - year - old children don't meet the scores expected in reading, writing and maths, can still be deemed «above the floor» — and so exempt from interventions including forced academisation — if those children have made sufficient progress.

• On average, schools with one year of funding and interventions under their belts saw a two percentage - point gain in reading proficiency — just about the same gain as all other U.S. schools that didn't get these huge cash infusions.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

• On average, schools with two years of funding and interventions under their belts saw a three percentage point gain in reading proficiency — just about the same gain as all other U.S. schools — those that didn't get these huge cash infusions.

Our results suggest that the focus of interventions should shift from a primary emphasis on changing the direct math and reading instructional environment to interventions that build better foundational skills of attention and fine motor skills and a better understanding of the world outside schools.

In this hybrid role, she will spend half the school day in a kindergarten classroom, and half the day doing reading interventions and literacy strategy work.

High - poverty schools can meet student, professional, and system learning agendas by strengthening instructional framework, targeted interventions, reading proficiency, reflective practice, and data - based inquiry.

With almost two - thirds of its Year 7 to 11 students reading at a primary level, Sunshine College decided to implement a whole - school intervention involving all staff - not just the literacy teachers.

Staff at Queensland's Anglican Church Grammar School (better known as Churchie), have captured Year 10 reading data as part of an action research project into male students» perceptions of their reading ability pre and post an intervention of taught reading strategies.

The scheme aims to improve literacy performance in schools by providing young people in London with specialist reading programmes through Arsenal's Double Club initiative and the IOE's Reading Recovery intervention - a programme which supports five and six - year - olds who struggle with lireading programmes through Arsenal's Double Club initiative and the IOE's Reading Recovery intervention - a programme which supports five and six - year - olds who struggle with liReading Recovery intervention - a programme which supports five and six - year - olds who struggle with literacy.

In this randomized trial of a reading intervention, we study a scaffolded sequence of implementation in which schools first develop proficiency by implementing the program with fidelity before implementing structured adaptations.

But at Northwest High School in Hughesville, Missouri, a determined community of educators, students, and parents implemented a reading assessment and intensive intervention program -LSB-...]

Obama's action consisted of allowing states to ignore some of NCLB's more incoherent mandates — the most important being the provision that required states, starting in 2014, to initiate federally mandated interventions at any school where less than 100 % of students were proficient in reading and math.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low - cost and large - scale summer reading intervention that provided comprehension lessons at the end of the school year and stimulated home - based summer reading routines with narrative and informational books.

In addition, AAL is recognized as a School of Distinction for providing effective interventions in reading and math.