Sentences with phrase «sixth grade reading»

I teach sixth grade Reading, and love to read your blogs and write about all things in the classroom.

The course was written to be fun and at a sixth grade reading level.

At Elm City, he taught fifth and sixth grade reading for four years before becoming the principal and taught fourth grade in Arkansas before coming to Connecticut in 2004.»

Questioning tech - niques of fifth and sixth grade reading teachers.

Veronica Briggs, another sixth grade reading and language arts teacher, comments, «The program has been so helpful.

I teach sixth grade Reading, and love to read your blogs and write about all things in the classroom.

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Consumer contracts and terms of service should be limited to a certain length and required to be written at a sixth - grade reading level.

He probably can't read above a sixth grade level.

Children in Kindergarten through sixth grade can participate in reading and logging their hours to receive a free Six Flags ticket.

It is in fifth and sixth grade that kids begin to tackle more complicated materials in math, reading and other subjects.

For example, in the Nurse Family Partnership model children born to mothers with low psychological resources had better academic achievement in math and reading in first through sixth grade compared to their control peers (i.e., mothers without the intervention with similar characteristics).30, 31

A sixth grader reading at a second grade level will not want to be seen carrying around a «baby book,» even if it's the only thing she can read.

Preliminary results released 2 years ago suggested that the answer, for first - and fourth - grade students in reading and for sixth - and ninth - grade students in math, was no.

Reading materials are rarely written at the recommended sixth - grade readingReading materials are rarely written at the recommended sixth - grade readingreading level.

The year hasn't gone very well; because you are reading and doing math at a sixth - grade level, much of your coursework is a struggle.

In most cases, you can't leave an academically challenged thirteen - year - old home alone all day to complete a program that requires reading on a sixth - grade level.

(Read essayist Brenda Dyck's reflections on the sixth - grade sleepover at her school in an Education World article, Asleep on the Job.)

When I met him at the beginning of sixth grade, he hated reading and read at a second grade level.

32 Vigorous exercise can lead to academic gains; many kids drinking alcohol by sixth grade, study shows; students read about bays and keep track of miles as they run across America.»

All this will produce is a generation of twenty - year - olds who read and do math at a sixth - grade level, and are unprepared for the real world.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

These kids were entering sixth grade but reading at a second - or third - grade level, and I just didn't know the answer to the following question: How do you get a kid like that to read at grade level?

In this system, a third grader reading at a sixth - grade level can read that level of books with other kids at the same reading level, regardless of their grade in school.

But in our data set it was the graduates of Florida Atlantic who were significantly less effective at teaching reading to students in sixth through eighth grades.

Reflections from a Recovered Teenage Girl «When reading through my old diaries, I was horrified by what I wrote in the green - lined notebooks from sixth and seventh grades.

Teams of «warriors» in sixth through eighth grade at Adams Middle School in Tampa, Florida, read and discuss young adult novels as part of the school's annual «Extreme Read.&raread and discuss young adult novels as part of the school's annual «Extreme Read.&raRead.»

(The Sun Sentinel) Marty West found math and reading scores for many Florida students in traditional middle schools dropped from fifth to sixth grade and continued to plummet as middle school proceeded.

It began as a program exclusively for eighth graders and has grown into a school - wide initiative in which members of every grade - level team — from the sixth - grade «Navajo Team» to the eighth - grade «Sioux Team» — read one book from the spring book fair.

Also check out sixth - grade teacher Donalyn Miller's article «Becoming a Classroom of Readers,» originally printed in Educational Leadership, which offers strategies for encouraging reading in your classroom.

«Unfortunately, the majority of students entering Urban Prep read at about the fifth - or sixth - grade level, and most of them are not able to perform math above the seventh - grade level,» explains Allen.

-- note that one sixth - grade reading passage, a poem about «pit ponies,» explains at the outset that «Ponies and donkeys were once used in mines to pull carts of ore — in the United States as well as Great Britain.»

Pam Chandler, a sixth - grade English, reading, and social studies teacher at Sequoia Middle School in Redding, California, defines the roles her students take on in literature circles in this way:

In their sixth - grade social studies and language arts class, while doing a simulation on the Maya, students take breaks for research, close reading of articles (from secondary sources to primary documents written in the 1500s), and analyzing their own artistic replicas of primary documents.

«Third - grade teachers aren't worried about reading, it's the sixth -, seventh -, and eighth -[grade teachers] who are worried.»

You might want to read educator Brenda Dyck's reflections on the sixth - grade sleepover at her school in an Education World article, Asleep on the Job.

Support personnel work with pre-kindergarten-through-second-grade students with poorly developed reading and writing skills, third graders who were held back, and students moving into sixth and ninth grades.

Chandler, who teaches sixth - grade at Sequoia Middle School in Redding, California, has her students read biographies and implements some ingenious related activities.

After reading an article about the extinction of honeybees in their science literacy class, fifth - and sixth - grade students said they wanted to do something to help.

«I'm actually reading a sixth grade book!

«That's why our kids in sixth grade start off reading three grades behind and then by eighth grade they are reading Animal Farm and Hamlet.»

Martin West, a Harvard education professor, found math and reading scores for many Florida students in traditional middle schools dropped from fifth to sixth grade and continued to plummet as middle school proceeded.

Every year it receives sixth graders who arrive reading and doing math at a third - grade level.

Yet by the end of sixth grade, none of those students are proficient in reading or math.

We had teachers say, «we have kids reading at the fifth and sixth grade level.»

This week, as our school enters another season of testing, our sixth - and eighth - grade teachers have chosen to read to students a principal's letter that one parent posted online: «We are concerned that these tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique... the scores you get will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything.

Unfortunately, CPS still has a promotion policy that requires students to «pass» both the state reading and the state math test in order to graduate from eighth grade or be promoted from third of sixth grade without having to go to summer school.

This year - long case study examines how a struggling reader in a sixth - grade social studies class, a seventh grade mathematics class, and an eighth grade science class «transacted» with the reading task demands of her...

Fluency Formula is a supplemental curriculum designed to promote reading fluency for first through sixth grade students.

When student test scores on the Ohio Academic Assessment indicated that only 33 % of Jones sixth graders were at the minimum state acceptance rates, middle childhood education students at Lourdes College stepped in to volunteer an hour each week to work with the sixth grade students to improve their reading proficiency.

Ms. Steadman served as elementary principal from 2006 until 2011; during which she also taught third and fourth grade reading, third grade math, and sixth grade math.