Sentences with phrase «students reading grade»

The teacher administers an oral reading fluency assessment, listening to each student read grade - level passages and calculating the number of words and average words per minute the student has read correctly.

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And so, essentially, the average student in Chicago looks like they're learning six years worth of math and reading skills in the five - year period between third and eighth grade.

With In2Books, for example, ePals helps students in grades 3 to 5 to improve their reading skills with the support of adult mentors in a safe, online learning environment.

Almost half of Canadian students (45 %) who wrote the test in 2000 achieved top scores in reading, but in 2009 only 40 % made similar grades.

My training, academically speaking, is in logic and rhetoric, and having taught first year college students I tend to read everything as though I'm grading.

When I was in first grade, teachers assigned students to reading groups based on how well they could read.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

As one who regularly grades papers of my college students, you would think I could manage doing a better job of proof reading my own posts... LOL.

I too have been reading since the beginning — who needs a story — you've got the man, you've got the happiness, and you've got the skills to make one hell of an empty stomach feel like the luckiest organ in the world — Besides, my husband, who was able to vote when I was born, just happens to be my professor from college... And when people ask what grade I got in his class, I become quiet and with a slight whisper say «I got a B» — And that was only 1 of 3 B's I got in college... Our story is wonderful for him since he nabbed the young student... Doesn't sound so good for me, but I love him and sharing it regardless... Happy Anniversary Deb and Alex!!!

Between 2007 and 2009, Fryer distributed a total of $ 9.4 million in cash incentives to 27,000 students in Chicago, Dallas, and New York City, incentivizing book reading in Dallas, test scores in New York, and course grades in Chicago.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

According to a study by Byers, Dillard, Easton, Henry, McDermott, Oberman, and Uhramcher (1996), students at Urban Waldorf went from having 26 % of third grade students reading at or above grade level in 1992 to 63 % at or above grade level in 1995.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

They also learn to read and compose music, and all students begin private lessons by the fourth grade with the help from the city's music community.

In their physics main lesson block, 6th grade students witness sound made visible as they experiment with a Chladni Plate... Read more...

Studies conducted in Minnesota and Maryland found that students who ate breakfast before starting school had a general increase in math grades and reading scores.

Students would continue taking standardized state tests in reading and math annually in grades three to eight and at least once in high school.

Studies indicate most students will lose about two months of a grade level in math skills and low - income students lose more than two months in reading.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

He worked one - on - one with a first grade student on a summer reading assignment and also read to an audience of pre-kindergarten students.

To celebrate this historic effort, one of the Tata group companies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will host a «Read - A-Loud» with pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students at Urban Scholars Community School, where each of these 300 + students will receive two books to add to their personal libraries at home.»

If you do anything other than «teach» (i.e. grading, reading student work, etc.) you don't get paid even minimum wage.

A new analysis from StudentsFirstNY found that at 75 city schools this year, all the students in at least one grade failed the state math or reading test.

In Yonkers, 4 out of 5 students can not read or do math on grade level — they need a Senator, too.

Moreover, a subsequent report issued by FES charged that less than 1 in 10 students met «grade - level benchmarks for reading and math.»

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

Those policies include a ten - year plan, $ 81 million to make computer science a requirement in city schools, and a $ 75 million annual commitment to hire reaching specialists to get all students up to reading on their grade level by the end of second grade.

«But the results for kids couldn't be further apart — public charter students are twice as likely to read and do math on grade level.

Students in Elizabeth Ross» second - grade classroom are holding their reading materials for the course.

Seizing on a sharp drop in reading and math scores after students took their first Common Core tests, the teachers fed fears that kids would somehow suffer because their grades had fallen, when the opposite was true.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

To combat summer slide, the Syracuse City School District is partnering with the American Book Company to offer all kindergarten through fifth grade students their own books, so they can keep up their reading skills.

Currently, only one in five Black or Hispanic students can read or write at grade level, and more than 200,000 Black and Hispanic students could not meet academic standards on this year's state exams.

That set off a backlash in which a fifth of the eligible students sat out the state's third - through eighth - grade reading and math tests last spring.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African - American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools — but the students» backgrounds likely are not the cause of the differences.

Being a responsible student, maintaining an interest in school and having good reading and writing skills will not only help a teenager get good grades in high school but could also be predictors of educational and occupational success decades later, regardless of IQ, parental socioeconomic status or other personality factors, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

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.

He read a narrative to 45 undergraduate students describing an event that had supposedly taken place in their first - grade class.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

For students with severe or «high» astigmatism, getting and wearing glasses may bring an improvement in reading fluency equivalent to one - half grade level, according to the report by Erin M. Harvey, PhD, and colleagues of The University of Arizona, Tucson.

Misdiagnosis commonly happens when students start learning to read in the first and second grades, and as English - language learners continue through the grade levels, the demand for the application of such executive control processes such as working memory and language increases as reading comprehension requirements become more complex.

The researchers found that students with intellectual disability who participated in four years of persistent, specialized instruction successfully learned to read at a first - grade level or higher.

After four years of the specialized teaching the researchers found that students with mild or moderate intellectual disability could independently read at the first - grade level, and some even higher.

K5 Learning provides an online reading and math program for kindergarten to grade 5 students.

In 2012, third - grade students in warning on the state's standardized test in reading dropped to 15 percent, compared with 24 percent last year and 39 percent in 2008.