Sentence examples for basic skills are from inspiring English sources

The basic skills are more important today than ever before.

The style is different, but the basic skills are those of the moon somersault".

Tests of basic skills are typically used for selection into teacher preparation programs.

Nor does it inspire confidence that students who leave school without basic skills are not acquiring them as adults.

The most basic skills are not being taught by example, and society is falling prey to the quick response that our computer generation has become accustomed to.

Read was outstanding in all departments and showed precisely what a dextrous, hard-running forward can achieve in wider channels if his rugby brain and basic skills are sharp enough.

And indeed, by 1986, student performance levels in basic skills were higher than the national average.

Once, generic tests like the Stanford or Iowa Test of Basic Skills were the industry's stock in trade.

In West Africa, where the teaching of basic skills is particularly poor, over half the teachers have little formal training and are on low-paid temporary contracts.

Some authorities, including Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, say the federal law's focus on basic skills is raising achievement in thousands of low-performing schools.

It's difficult to sound off on issues like this without sounding like a back-to-basics knee-jerker, but wanting more solid achievement in more basic skills isn't reactionary.