Sentences with phrase «words per minute ms»

The participants were asked to «point and click» on letters — similar to using a normal computer mouse — to type specific sentences, and their typing rate in words per minute was measured.

Not exact matches

It may prove a challenge, but if you're still hunting and pecking, you could give this gadget a try so you can at least save face for your slow word - per - minute count.

Unless you're using a Surface, which has its own keyboard, you'll probably want to purchase keyboard to maximize your words per minute in transit.

There have been thousands of words of criticism, from pundits and Arsenal fans alike, blaming last weekend's defeat to Chelsea on Per Mertesacker for getting himself sent off in the 20th minute, but Arsene Wenger has come out in defence of the Big Flippin German saying that he has also been Arsenal saviour in the past, but he does agree it was a mistake by the experienced defender.

I sometimes shuddered imagining the sort of advertisements that would be run on this theme, if money and time were no object: «Let's have Oliver Letwin in the foreground spouting gangster rap at 120 words per minute, and in the background we'll have Nicholas Soames and John Redwood break - dancing... yes, perfect!»

The two people went from not being able to read at all, to reading 60 to 80 words per minute with normal reading glasses.

Average rates were 7.8 words per minute for Degray and 6.3 and 2.7 words per minute, respectively, for the other two participants.

The software can determine whether the people are actually at their desks as well as very nuanced metrics of their computer usage, from number of words typed per minute and mouse clicks to where their eyes go on the screen.

Stephen's rate of speech is down to about one word per minute, and while I am making slight advances in the technology he is using, the nerve decay has now reached the point where we need to move to some new technology.

One analogy for these results might be the question of who can type a paragraph «better»: a 16 - year - old who glides along at 60 words per minute but then has to double - back to correct a number of mistakes or a 70 - year - old who strikes keys at only 40 words per minute but spends less time fixing errors.

Typists rummaged around with one or two fingers while looking at the keyboard, and Sholes was ecstatic if the resulting typing rate reached a measly 20 or 30 words per minute, the rate of writing by hand.

(If you can't touch - type 50 words per minute, you're practically mute.)

you've been meaning to read in there and you'll be able to read them at 300 words per minute when you are just starting out!

In other words, if you're trying to do «aerobic training» you need to be just a few beats per minute below your aerobic threshold, rather than actually at it.

She was gratified by the positive fan mail she received for Torchy, and justifiably proud of her ability to spout out 390 words per minute in the role, but Farrell decided to leave Warners and free - lance after five «Torchy Blaines.»

How are her words per minute?

For example, if a student is reading 50 words per minute but needs to be at 120 words, the teacher can explain this.

In a Canby fourth - grade classroom of sixteen students, from the fall to mid-year assessment of reading fluency, when average increase in word count per minute (WCPM) is 12, the average in the iPod classroom was close to 20.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

*** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** The passages and comprehension questions in this packet are designed to help you meet both your specific English / Language Arts standards and learning expectations as well as those recommended by the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSS).

When a struggling reader improves their fluency by ten words per minute in one month, that is a celebration.

For our final analysis, we conducted a stepwise regression in which the most powerful school level (systematic internal assessment and parent links) and classroom level (time in small - group instruction and time in independent reading) variables were simultaneously regressed on our most robust outcome measure, fluency as indexed by words correct per minute on a grade level passage.

At graduation, their peers who averaged less than 15 minutes of reading per day are likely to be exposed to only 1.5 million words.

In the fall (for grades 2 — 3) and spring (grades 1 — 3) students were assessed on words correct per minute on a grade level passage, retelling on an instructional level passage, and a word list (again comprised of common sight words and some words with predictable spellings).

The number of correct words per minute from the passage is the oral reading fluency score.

Under the «Fall» and «Spring» columns are the students» scores (number of words read correct per minute) for those benchmark seasons.

The students» rates of improvement are listed under the column titled «Growth,» which indicates how many words read correct per minute the student gained from fall to spring per week.

During the spring screening period, Maria read 89 words per minute on a grade - level passage with 87 % accuracy, which is below grade - level expectations (150 words, 95 % accuracy).»

One student in Tier 2 of Response to Intervention increased from 30 words per minute to 96 and is now on grade level — in just 3 months!

Grade 1 was analyzed separately from grades 2 - 3 since different fall scores (e.g., word dictation in grade 1 versus words correct per minute, Gates comprehension, or writing score in grades 2 - 3) were used as explanatory variables in the analyses.

In the fall, children in grades 2 - 6 were individually assessed on fluency (words correct per minute) based on their reading of a BRI passage (Johns, 1997) that was one grade level below their grade placement.

Across all schools, the mean school fluency score was 104.5 words correct per minute.

For example, for a student who is below grade level in reading fluency, the goal may be to read at a rate of 80 words per minute, rather than the grade - level expectation of 150 words per minute.

Since students can monitor their own progress, they are able to set their own goals in what needs to take place in order for them to improve their words per minute and / or comprehension.

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The students are very independent and eager to progress to the next story to improve their words per minute.»

Some kids with fluency problems really struggle with phonics and their low words correct per minute rates may be due to phonics difficulties.

The benchmark is a horizontal solid black line; here, the benchmark line shows that students are expected to read 116 words per minute in the fall.

«Fluency measures such as words correct per minute has been shown, in both theoretical and empirical research, to serve as an accurate and powerful indicator of overall reading competence, especially in its strong correlation with comprehension.»

For example, by the end of first grade we want all children to read at least 40 words correct per minute on a first grade reading passage and demonstrate a level of reading comprehension that is commensurate with this level of fluency which on the DRA is a Level 18 or higher.

Instead, a school team might find that a 2nd grade student is reading grade - level passages at a rate of 20 words read correctly (WRC) per minute compared with the expectation of 45 WRC for 2nd grade students at that point in the school year.

Franck Dernoncourt, a research scientist at Adobe Research, has said that the average typist works from 50 to 80 words per minute, but that the speech recognition rate is more than 100 words per minute.

If you consider that a TED talk averages 163 words per minute, you can see why writers are turning to speech recognition software like Dragon or LilySpeech.

And with Spritz working on its new proprietary speed - reading app that may get you up to 500 words per minute or higher (I confess, as an «industry reader,» I'm intrigued), you might start seeing a morsel of Tolstoy from Lee and Love as pretty spacious stuff when it lands on your iPhone as the cock crows.

Additionally, the typical conversational has around 140 - 180 words per minute and we can easily comprehend everything that was said, in audiobook terms that is playback on 2x the normal speed.

There's a speed test included with the application, and I was reading around 325 words per minute at the beginning; now, I'm hovering between 585 and 608.

By default, the app is set to 3 «stops» per line and 300 words per minute.

The essence of the platform is to allow users to crank up how many words per minute a body of text will produce.

All you have to do is set the words per minute speed at a pace you're comfortable with and you're all set to go.

The app is preset at 300 words per minute and 3 stops per line, but in the event that is too fast, you can tap the screen to pause and adjust the speeds accordingly.