Sentences with phrase «whose reading skills»

A middle school has some students whose reading skills are significantly delayed and who have not made adequate progress with Tier 1 instruction or Tier 2 interventions.

A study published in June 2012 evaluated five middle schools in western Washington to answer the question, «How can we help middle school students whose reading skills are two or more years below grade level?»

The supplemental literacy programs are full - year courses targeted to students whose reading skills are two to five years below grade level as they enter high school.

Since 2004, the Jenks Public Schools has tracked the number of students entering first grade whose reading skills are below grade level.

The researchers found that the benefits of double - dosing were largest for students whose reading skills were weaker than their math skills.

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When I read those stories, I realized anew that Dorsett is not just a well - compensated celebrity athlete whose skills I enjoyed.

We read about prodigies like Mozart, whose musical skills were at genius level, but who had little chance to develop any others, and ended up depressed and neurotic, dying young.

Children whose parents are more educated and have better jobs and higher incomes tend to have stronger math and reading skills than their peers.

Whedon's skill at combining heroic speechmaking with smartly snarky humor — a trait he honed writing «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «Firefly,» and that he perfected in the «Avengers» movies — gets a workout here, with Miller benefitting the most with his reading of Barry as a socially awkward speedster whose mouth is nearly as fast as his feet.

Chicago — Mastery learning has proved its worth as a method of teaching reading, especially to students whose proficiency is below average, but educators who use the sometimes - controversial method should not regard it as a «quick fix» for poor basic - skills test scores.

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

«Teacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» he says.

This is no surprise to fans of E.D. Hirsch, whose research over the last 25 years (from Cultural Literacy (1987) to The Making of Americans (2010)-RRB-, has shown that teaching children a wide - ranging but comprehensive content heavy curriculum actually improves reading more than teaching reading skills does.

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Second graders whose teachers over three years had participated in the program showed significant improvement in reading skills, equal to moving from the 50th to the 57th percentile.

Among a subgroup of students who entered school with below - average alphabet skills and ability to sound out words, those who participated in SFA for three years performed significantly better than peers whose schools were not in the program on tests of phonics skills, word recognition, and reading fluency.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

denotes people whose reading and writing skills are not enough «to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level.»

Functional illiteracy denotes people whose reading and writing skills are not enough «to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level.»

Saville - Troike (1976) claims learning to read occurs once, so the schooled Somali and Vietnamese, whose languages use the Roman alphabet, may transfer reading skills.

Similarly at primary, we're all looking for teachers of reading, writing and mathematics who are excited by the ambition of the September 2014 curriculum and whose practice models what we know enables most pupils to master the skills so vital to their futures.

For those students whose screening and other data indicate slower reading progress, the small group lessons can be a very important time for students to experience the lesson again and practice the skills with immediate teacher feedback.

Schools can optionally enter the names of specific interventions for different reading skills into the FAST ™ system, and they will automatically display as recommendations for students whose data suggest a need for intervention.

Instead, they highlight their «open - access mission» and invite in anyone with a high - school diploma (and many without it), including those whose reading and math skills are at a middle - school level.

, especially children who are reading or writing below grade level; (B) provides intensive, supplemental, accelerated, and explicit intervention and support in reading and writing for children whose literacy skills are below grade level;... (2)

How can two teachers share responsibility for teaching a diverse group of students whose reading, writing, research and study skills vary from well below to above grade level?

How can two teachers share responsibility for teaching a diverse group of students whose English skills vary from well below to above grade level in reading and writing?

As for matters of style, I had just read «Angela's Ashes» and I was very much taken by Frank McCourt's skill to tell the story through the eyes of a child who was gradually growing older, and whose comprehension of the world gets correspondingly more sophisticated.

«This page - turner... is definitely a must read by an author whose storytelling skills keep getting better and better.»

It's all been YouTube videos and a lot of reading,» says Borderlines host Steve Meurrens, whose level of technical skill before he started podcasting was typical of most lawyer - producers interviewed for this story.

Then, of course, there are even those whose language skills are just too poor to be of use and who are unable to pass the Bar Exams (which are pretty easy, as long as you read carefully and understand what you're reading).

If the LSUC releases stats on the LPP candidates then it needs to include the number whose language skills are subpar (reading, writing, speaking) and who have failed or go on to fail the Bar Exams.

Bilich, whose business helps place executives in a range of industries, says veterans need to put a skills section on their resume above their experience so a recruiter or human resources professional who has no military experience is more likely to read it.

And those have been followed - up by further research finding that that ninth - grade teachers who are particularly good in helping student acquire non-cognitive skills are more successful «much larger in magnitude» in having students graduate and attend college than those whose work results in higher test scores alone (see You'll Want To Read This Interview With Education Researcher Kirabo Jackson).