The story, which started out interesting, devolved into one told at a sixth grade reading level.
Because they're volunteer-based, and because each state uses different methods to measure reading level, doing a nationwide study would be difficult.
Use of appropriate teaching aids: The programme uses learning materials that learners encounter in their daily lives, but simplified to correspond with their reading level.
By 2002 the government wants 80% of 11-year-olds to be at the right reading level, and 75% to have the maths skills expected of children that age.
He coaches auditors to use action verbs such as "verify" and "confirm" and tells them to write below a 12th-grade reading level so it can be easily understood.
In fact, the minimum reading skill level required of new factory workers has risen from the 10th grade reading level to the equivalent of two years of college or more.
Rhode Island, for example, in 2009 passed regulations requiring that all health insurance policies in the state, beginning in 2010, be written at an eighth-grade level, which is the average reading level for state residents.
Distribute copies of Backgrounder: The Electoral College. (Depending on the reading level of your students, you may want to choose the short or the long version.) Allow students ample time to read the information presented in the Backgrounder.
While we should maintain the law's strong focus on getting kids to proficiency in reading and math, grade-level math and reading skills are just the beginning of what children will need to succeed in 21st-century workplaces.
Boys were found to be reading at a lower level than girls - but the What Kids Are Reading survey, which has been running for five years, says the gap has been narrowing.
This is the 15th highest level reading for bearish sentiment since the survey started in 1987.
Granted, generally the children were not reading at grade level, but they are making strides in the right direction!
The oscillator on Tuesday had a -80 or so reading, a level that usually leads to an oversold bounce.
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It allows us to get a reading on the level of buying or selling interest and can help to determine whether supply or demand is dominating a market.
By third grade, children from low-income families who are not reading at grade level are six times less likely to graduate from high school than students who are proficient.
Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.
It guaranteed that a child enrolled in kindergarten this year would be reading at grade-level by the end of the second grade.
She hopes the extra time will help bring students up to their grade level in reading, vocabulary, math, science and life skills.
"Although they occasionally will have an isolated reading with an unacceptable level of asbestos it's very occasional and very isolated, " Giuliani said.
John Oster had a chance to level as Reading looked to respond but saw his header tipped away before Michael Owen hooked Habib Beye's cross into the net.
Thanks to this parental freedom, Milwaukee's public schools are now promising parents who enroll their kids in kindergarten personal tutors -- at the school's expense -- if those students are not reading at grade-level by the end of second grade.
In 1998, the percent of fourth-grade students in the highest-poverty public schools who met or exceeded the NAEP Basic level in reading was about half the national rate, and progress in reading overall is only back to 1998 and 1990 levels.
Such feasts can be soporific, but unfortunately, so are the lectures, with undergraduate-level speakers sometimes reading from PowerPoint presentations.
Among children on free school meals nearly 72% reached Level 2 in reading and 64% did so in writing.
In the new single level tests being piloted in English reading, English writing and mathematics, the questions are all pitched at a certain level of understanding.
The win moves Harry Redknapp's side up to 23 points, level with fellow strugglers Reading, who lost 2-1 to Aston Villa -- who rise to 17th with 27 points.
Only one in five students entering college are prepared for college-level work in math, reading, writing, and biology.
This was the first negative reading since December 2010 and the lowest level for the index since August 2010.
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But the reading remains below the 50.0 level that separates expansion from contraction.
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