In terms of college readiness, 28% of those who took the test did not meet any of the four ACT readiness benchmarks in English, math, reading and science.
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Phonics teaching is an important component of the teaching of reading, but not all words in English are phonically regular (the linguist David Crystal estimates 80% are, but the other 20% contains many of the most common words in English).
When its library moved to massive new premises 1.5 km away, it left behind one of the great English spaces: the 1857 Round Reading Room designed by Sydney Smirke, with its shallow dome, surrounded by an 8, 100 sq m internal court.
As a middle school English teacher, most of my reading material lies in the land of YA fiction (I must admit, I LOVE the likes of Eragon, Inkheart, and of course, Harry Potter).
"I loved the film, getting to know David O Russell has been great, but as a novelist and as a former English teacher who loves literature, part of the fun of reading a novel is creating that world in your mind, " says Quick.
The Professor of English at the University of Virginia has created an audio archive of Faulkner reading and lecturing.
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.
For the Great British Railway stamps, users are treated to a short film of English actor Bernard Cribbins reading W.H.
Last year's figures showed 77% of 11-year-olds had reached the required standard in English - comprising both reading and writing - up from 75% in 2003.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.
But if reading a lot of novels gave you exceptional empathy university English departments should be filled with the most compassionate and generous-minded of souls, and, so far, they are not.
In English, for example, the treatment of speaking and listening varied and there was significantly less prescribed reading in the IGCSEs.
At age 11, one fifth of children fail to reach the level expected in English (Level 4) - although achievement in reading is better than in writing.
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