There's good reason to regularly
test students in reading and math, and to use those results to inform judgments about how well schools and teachers are doing.
Middle
school students in a reading improvement class liked using e-readers for a variety or reasons, and felt their reading improved as a result.
And it is still not uncommon to hear educators insist that
assessing students in reading and math is unfair, especially to students likely not to perform well.
They actively
involve students in reading books that engage them and in writing poems, essays, narratives, plays, and speeches about ideas that are theirs alone.
African American passing rates on state standardized tests were 10 points behind those of
white students in reading and 16 points behind in math.
With bright, familiar images of bugs and simple text, this book will engage
students in reading as they learn basic math concepts.
Trained students in reading techniques that increased student awareness of the reading - writing connection found in all great writing.
Using primary sources in the classroom can give an assignment and authentic feel and
engage students in reading strategies as they are learning about the historical time period.
Most of the nine volunteers at P.S. 154 work four hours a day, four days a week, either in classrooms or tutoring individual first and second -
grade students in reading skills for 45 minutes at a time.
Around the time of the law's passage in 2001, test scores of
Hispanic students in reading and math did begin to rise but remain well below those of their non-Hispanic white peers (see Figure 2).
Two
graduate students in reading education apprenticed to become Book Buddies II site coordinators and earned FWS funds for supervising community volunteers and writing lesson plans.
I administer the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment (which my school requires) three times a year and use that data to
place students in reading support groups.
UCF College of Education and Human Performance Graduate
students in Reading Education will mentor and develop 6th - 8th grade students» reading skills during this Adolescent Reading Lab (ARL) project.
The report also shows private school students outperforming public
students in reading in most states for which comparisons were possible, but it urges caution in interpreting those results.
The program uses Lexile scores, which measure reading ability and the difficulty of the text, to place
students in reading groups.
This video explains how to enroll
students in Read Live, assign them licenses, make students inactive, and delete students.
In 2011, the average SAT combined score for YES Prep African
American students in reading, writing, and mathematics was 1556, far above the national average of 1273 for African Americans, and significantly higher than the 1500 national average for all students.
Since the year 2000, the most developed countries have been able to compare knowledge and skills of their 15 - year -
old students in reading, mathematics and science in a periodic PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test.
CTBA also claims that the U.S. Department of Education's study of Washington D.C.'s school voucher program «found no signfiicant difference between the performance of voucher and
non-voucher students in reading and math.»
And of course a broad and deep base of knowledge doesn't just assist
students in reading nonfiction texts: it makes successful readers of fiction too, just as the knowledge that students derive from reading isn't exclusively from nonfiction.
For example, math, science or social studies teachers may form partnerships with English Language Arts teachers to produce the written components of these experiences or to involve
students in reading non-fiction and literature that helps build foundational knowledge for the investigative process.
Amid the intense debates about how much progress the nation has made in raising student achievement and whether federal investments in education have produced results, one important trend tends to be overlooked — namely, the notable gains made by African American and
Latino students in reading and math achievement since 1971.
At each school, Book Buddies coordinators, who are current or former graduate
students in reading at UVA, supervise 15 tutoring pairs.
Those same National Assessment of Educational Progress scores that give us national bragging rights show achievement gaps between white and both African - American and Latino students, and between lower - and higher -
income students in reading and mathematics.
This study examined the performance of these displaced students for three years and found that in the first year after the storm that Katrina students tested in Texas (2006), the percentages of these students passing was far below the passing percentage of all
Texas students in reading and mathematics.
Last fall, parent Charlene Williams found a way to engage
students in reading outside the classroom when she organized the school's new after - school club, «Book Buzz.»