Sentence examples for middle grade students from inspiring English sources

The purpose of this study is to translate principles of multimedia learning from college-age readers to middle grade students, when reading science texts with a supporting diagram.

Catley et al.'s (2005) primary focus was on how elementary and middle grade students could develop the skills needed to deal with evolution and its use as an overarching theme in the biological sciences.

Surely this suggests an opportunity to invest more in efforts that help middle grade students enter the 9th grade excited about postsecondary education and with a plan for how to get there.

ACT, Inc. (the nonprofit that administers the ACT exam) reports that some programs can increase the college-readiness of at-risk middle grade students, a clear indication that prudent investment in the middle grades can have an impact.

For example, some elementary and middle grade students do not understand how variability might be controlled by reducing effects of unrelated variables (difficulty IVE; Chen and Klahr, 1999; Kuhn and Dean, 2005), while middle school students have trouble interpreting findings when faced with natural variation (difficulty IVA; Kanari and Millar, 2004).

This assessment was completed by 24 middle grades students (age 12 – 14 years) after 10 hours of instruction using a visual programming environment.

In middle grades, students perceive their middle grades teachers as more remote and impersonal than their elementary teachers and are less certain that their middle school teachers care about them and know them well.

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the effects of an afterschool science and engineering program, Studio STEM, on upper-elementary and middle grades students' beliefs about science, and their motivation and engagement in the program.

Middle-grade students play a game they call scavenger hunt, in which they are given a list of vocabulary words to search for in their readings.

Parents don't need to be convinced that summer reading, at least for middle-grade students (about 8-11), is vital for keeping up reading skills during the break.

He was 94. "Meltzer was one of the first in a new wave of nonfiction writers who brought lively and passionate writing, grounded in original source material, to middle-grade students and young adults, without talking down to them," Lisa Von Drasek, the children's librarian at the Bank Street College of Education in New York and an expert in the field, said in an interview on Wednesday.