Sentence examples for international reading from inspiring English sources

The World According to Garp, however, struck a chord with the international reading public.

In 2009, American 15-year-olds scored in 17th place in international reading tests — among 65 nations rich and poor.

Meanwhile, children grow up and leave home, Solzhenitsyn goes into exile, and on the international reading circuit the friends start to miss each other more than they coincide.

Literary magazines including Southerly and Meanjin, both concerned with promoting Australian writing (and both still extant)—established themselves, and the interest of the international reading public in Australian writing grew.

The biggest gender gap in school is usually associated with literacy, with girls runaway leaders in exams and international reading tests.

It focuses in particular on the most recent figures from the international reading and literacy study which found that only 40% of English children were keen readers as opposed to 64% of Italians.

Timothy Shanahan, past president of the International Reading Association and a professor of urban education and reading at the University of Illinois at Chicago, suggested that the endowment's report was not nuanced enough.

The discussion is playing out among educational policy makers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.

In 2011 it coincided with the quinquennial PIRLS Progresss in International Reading Literacy Study) which has studied nine-year-olds' reading abilities since 2001.In this section Pisa envy Beginning at home Clubbing together ReprintsCritics point out that these are only snapshots: they may show what is happening, but not why.

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study PIRLSS) is one of the most influential studies that utilizes the concept of reading literacy.

Similar analysis could be conducted using data in future cycles of PISA or from other international studies such as trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study PIRLSS) to cross-validate the findings.