Sentence examples for competent readers from inspiring English sources

If children do not become competent readers by age 9 — when most are in fourth grade — it is far more likely that they will read poorly as adults.

An international study of reading in 35 countries conducted in 2001 demonstrated that English children were some of the most competent readers in the world, ranked behind Sweden and the Netherlands.

Increasing budgets, reducing class sizes, giving the mayor control and renovating buildings without insisting on educational practices shown to work would guarantee that a substantial proportion of New York City's children would not become competent readers.

It is generally agreed that the attitude students hold toward reading plays a vital role during the period when they are being nurtured to be competent readers and to have high academic achievement (Guthrie et al. [2000]).

As competent readers, they were able to retrieve significant details embedded across the texts, to provide support for inferences, to interpret figurative (e.g., graphs and tables) information, and to understand organizational features of the text.

After all, we had the scores in front of us: not even 18percentt of the school's fourth graders were competent readers.

Imagine, for example, having a competent reader standing over your shoulder, ready to help with pronunciation.

That the aforesaid Hasan Mr. Gershon although a fair reader as a member of a congregation, yet the committee do not consider him a competent reader enough to read the Sepher Torah.

US bookstore Barnes & Noble has a highly competent reader called the Nook Glowlight which has a tactile rubberised frame that's comfortable even if your hands are slathered in factor 30.

Gershon's appointment was controversial; after a background check, the board decided by a 10 9 vote on April 6, 1856, that he had never held the position of cantor in any other congregation, and was therefore not "sufficiently acquainted with the actual requirements to fill said office", and was furthermore not "a competent reader enough to read the Sepher Torah".

There are more disastrous porkies in Simone Lia's They Didn't Teach THIS in Worm School! (Walker), in which Marcus the worm's wish to avoid being Laurence the chicken's breakfast results in an impromptu flight to Kenya – or an attempt, at least – when Marcus insists he is a highly competent map reader.