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Results Adjusting for sociodemographics, maternal intelligence, and home environment in linear regression, longer breastfeeding duration was associated with higher Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test score at age 3 years (0.21; 95 % CI, 0.03 - 0.38 points per month breastfed) and with higher intelligence on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test at age 7 years (0.35; 0.16 - 0.53 verbal points per month breastfed; and 0.29; 0.05 - 0.54 nonverbal points per month breastfed).

The resulting tests can not include many serious passages of literature that would be «discriminatory» by virtue of including instances of vocabulary, syntax, and background knowledge that would privilege the more affluent.

The results, published in 2007 in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, showed that the storytelling students scored significantly better on vocabulary and reading «readiness» tests than the control group.

The bottom line: reading comprehension is a slow - growing plant, and the demand for rapid results on annual tests may be encouraging poor classroom practice — giving kids a sugar rush of test preparation, skills, and strategies when a well - rounded diet of knowledge and vocabulary is what's really needed to grow good readers.

A US Department of Education analysis of results from the 2011 national reading tests shows that Virginia students have larger vocabularies and stronger passage - comprehension skills than their peers nationwide.

Get all Vocabulary Workshop Achieve's program tests in an interactive format, plus access to a Build an Assessment feature to customize assessments according to students» needs, and a robust reporting system to track and monitor student results in real time.

However, consistent with the results of other NAEP tests, the vocabulary results show Wisconsin has one of the largest gaps between white and black students in the nation.

Results showed that a greater reported volunteer — student relationship quality predicted greater gains by EC students on passage comprehension and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scores.