Sentences with phrase «third language learners»

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By the time they reach third grade, English - language learners may begin to struggle with a more challenging reading curriculum, and because of this, their school may examine them more closely for comprehension challenges and may eventually refer them to the school's special education team for a learning disability diagnosis in their second language without fully assessing them in their native language.

I coached Jane in her third year of teaching ninth - grade English in a high school with many English - language learners (ELLs).

One - third are English language learners (ELLs).

Due to a large influx of new immigrants and refugees to the area from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East — most notably Kurdistan and Syria, earning one neighborhood the nickname Little Kurdistan — at least 18 percent of MNPS students are now English - language learners, and a full third of students do not speak English at home.

Overall, a third of the school's students are identified as «high needs,» a designation that includes special education students and English language learners, students who are in foster care or from households receiving state assistance with food or housing and those from economically disadvantaged families.

This webinar provided participants an opportunity to identify the opportunities of SRCLP program to increase language and literacy skills of young children and improve practice of educators; share evidence - based research to improve reading comprehension of children preschool to third grade; and discuss considerations for state leaders in designing policy and professional learning to increase effectiveness of early language and literacy instruction, particularly for dual language learners, and children with special needs.

Her diverse third - grade class, which includes English language learners, takes the state tests.

A third of them are English - language learners.

From kindergarten through high school students get a state - of - the - art science education in a district where more than one third of the students are Latino, many of them English language learners, and 70 % receive free or reduced - price lunch.

In our survey, one - third or less of the principals have yet integrated the CCSS into expanded learning opportunities or into programs for supporting English - language learners or special education students.

Just 68 percent of English language learner (ELL) third - grade students met the «satisfactory» passing standard (a 22 percent gap in comparison to white third - grade students).

In 2016, the Boston Globe found that although one - third of the students in the Boston public school population are English - language learners, only 13 percent of Boston's charter school students are.

The bill eliminates Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for Colleges and Careers (PARCC) testing in the 10th through 12th grades, takes steps to alleviate testing for English language learners, and streamlines School Readiness and READ Act testing to give more instruction time to students in kindergarten through third grade.

Currently, most English language learner students in the third grade through eighth grade take the same state assessments that are administered to all other students, and these assessment results are used to measure their growth.

By 2012, though, things had changed for the better: Sanger Unified ranked third in achievement gains among California districts with high populations of minority, English language learners and disadvantaged students.

The district serves a diverse population of students from many racial / ethnic backgrounds, including one third who are English language learners.

While one - fourth of the entire studied cohort lived in poverty, almost half of Black and Hispanic children (46 percent) and almost two - thirds of Hispanic English language learners (63 percent) lived in poverty.

One of the challenges facing Alexander Bruce School was the fact that one third of its students were English language learners.

She has been a kindergarten through third grade classroom teacher and an English language learner specialist.

The third course, coupled with a fourth course on the special needs of linguistically diverse learners, offered in the second semester, formally introduced the teachers to SFL for language education focusing on the functions of language in linguistic resources for meaning through application.

With English learners and low - income students making up two - thirds of its enrollment, 57 percent of its students scored proficient in English language arts and 45 percent scored proficient in math, 8 percentage points higher than the state average.

Resources for Supporting Teachers and Administrators to Improve Outcomes for Dual Language Learners in Pre-K through Third Grade identifies selected resources on best practices and policy to support effective teaching and learning for dual language learners (DLL) in early childhood programs and early elementaryLearners in Pre-K through Third Grade identifies selected resources on best practices and policy to support effective teaching and learning for dual language learners (DLL) in early childhood programs and early elementarylearners (DLL) in early childhood programs and early elementary school.

Due to a large influx of new immigrants and refugees to the area from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East — most notably Kurdistan and Syria, earning one neighborhood the nickname Little Kurdistan — at least 18 percent of MNPS students are now English - language learners, and a full third of students do not speak English at home.