Sentence examples for skill in reading from inspiring English sources

Aims primarily to develop skill in reading French.

According to the Department of Education, between 1992 and 2003 the average adult's skill in reading prose slipped one point on a five-hundred-point scale, and the proportion who were proficient — capable of such tasks as "comparing viewpoints in two editorials" — declined from fifteen per cent to thirteen.

Much of that is a result of poorly coordinated care, poor communication, patients falling through the cracks, knowledge not being transferred and so on, but some part of it is surely from failing to listen to the story and diminishing skill in reading the body as a text.

Her skill in reading faces for clues is a huge breakthrough, says Dr. Brian Jack of the Boston Medical Center.

Among those whose oxytocin genes were least methylated, they found "attachment styles" that were more secure, greater skill in reading others' states of mind, and brains that appeared better built for positive social interaction.

Eventually work your way up as your skill in reading tabs increases.

But as the debate continues, the figures in Chicago speak for themselves: Only 26percentt of our elementary students were able to meet national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading in 1995.

This is in line with expectations, given that home computer use, according to the displacement hypothesis, should affect skills in reading continuous text, rather than finding factual information in non-continuous texts such as graphs, maps, lists or sets of instructions, i.e., the text type that shares many similarities with how information often is presented at the computer screen.

Despite their similarities to human infants, and extensive skills in reading human cues in foraging contexts, no evidence that dogs follow gaze into distant space has been found.

Dogs share an evolutionary and developmental history with humans as a result of their domestication, and there is ample evidence that dogs have specialized skills in reading human-given cues (Kaminski, 2009).

The cut-offs used when dividing the respondents into the three groups were based on definitions describing the abilities needed for sufficient FHL, i.e. basic skills in reading information and instructions about health [ 7].