Sentences with phrase «with poor reading skills»

We believed this constituted an emergency for our school; students who enter high school with poor reading skills are more likely to drop out.

A PowerPoint detailing the content of The Reading Repairer and explaining why and how it should be helpful for teaching older students with poor reading skills.

Focusing on academic issues are the less strident but still determined critics who say many non-native English speakers are graduating from school systems with poor reading skills in both English and their native language.

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The 20 - something Richard Branson racked up a résumé that would impress no one: high - school dropout with poor reading and math skills.

The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

I was a public school teacher so I became familiar with the general impact of poor reading skills on learning in any field.

Sid Prejean: you need spell check... badly... before you come at me with your poor literacy skills, read what you write.

It is intolerable that so many young people, for example, still leave primary education with very poor reading, writing and maths skills.

Children with poor motor performance at the school entry were found to have poorer reading and arithmetic skills than their better performing peers during the first three years of school.

The study analysed data from four large - scale longitudinal studies and found that the poorer reading and maths skills of children born prematurely were associated with lower educational qualifications on leaving school and lower income in middle age.

Offenders in their mid-teens have poor reading skills, with over half of these having literacy skills below the expected level of an 11 - year - old.

The first international survey of adult literacy shows that Americans» reading skills — as poor as they may be — are on par with those of citizens of some of the world's other richest nations.

As in English, Spanish speakers with reading disabilities consistenlty display poorer phonological awareness skills and use a phonological strategy (sounding out) less often than their non-disabled peers.

Although we may think of reading comprehension as a single skill or a single subtest score, students with poor reading comprehension ofte struggle with a variety of deficits.

Governor Haslam has wisely invested Tennessee dollars into literacy initiatives in 2016 because he knows poor reading skills are connected with unfavorable life outcomes.

As a young man with no smartphone and poor map reading skills, I naturally got lost the first time I drove to see the school at which I would teach in Mobile, AL..

Math: Children with strong language or reading skills may have poor math skills, or vice versa.

For example, poor reading skills in the early elementary grades are highly correlated with later delinquency.

There is a cult of value investors with poor math skills that are always talking about buying long term quality companies and its nice to read a post that set the record straight.

@Anu (19:41:04) «Very interesting example of poor reading skills combined with anti-science bias.»

It indicated that those born into large or single parent families with low incomes and poor housing were much less likely to succeed in school, were likely to be on average three and a half years behind other children in reading skills and were more likely to exhibit behavioural problems in class.

In unadjusted models, experiencing 1 ACE was associated with poor teacher - reported language and literacy skills (odds ratio [OR]: 1.5, 95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.1 — 2.1), science and social studies skills (OR: 1.6, 95 % CI: 1.1 — 2.4), and math skills (OR: 1.6, 95 % CI: 1.1 — 2.3), as well as not yet or beginning to understand and interpret a story or other text read to the child (OR: 1.6, 95 % CI: 1.04 — 2.4).

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

As an English teacher, I am constantly recommending wide reading at home — even with very competent students, not just ones with poor literacy skills.