He was subsequently commissioned to investigate the island's primary schools and found reading ability in decline.
Jack Horner's reading ability is so poor that he says he bought shampoo for dogs instead of people recently.
Again, although the programme can lead to considerable improvements in both phoneme discrimination and reading ability, the way that this comes about is unknown.
To help neo-literate police officers test their reading ability with informative and relevant material, UNESCO publishes a monthly newspaper, Khedmat (which means "service" in the Pashto and Dari languages).
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are satisfied with the adequacy of information on reading ability provided by the tests at Key Stage II - The Lord Quirk.
Research by Stanford scientists has shown that musical training improves how the brain processes spoken words, and could lead to improvement in reading ability for children with dyslexia and other problems.
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From the Title I elementary school, the data were even more telling: With five months' worth of books, the children of the title I school increase their reading ability on average of two levels!
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience.
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It does not simply refer to technical skills, but rather has to do with understanding, critical reading, the ability to analyse and reason and social participation.
Wales again ranked lowest of the UK countries in terms of reading, maths and science ability.
In terms of the proportion of pupils reaching the highest ability levels in primary reading, Northern Ireland was even more successful, ranked third place in the world.
More impressive is the e-reader's ability to learn your reading speed and give you information on how long it will take you to finish a chapter, or the entire book.
We've got to play smart, we've got to play clever and it's about reading the situation, backing your own ability and enjoying it.
"The ability to interact rather than just reading a text in this technology-driven age will probably drive more interest, " Tierney said.
The only thing missing on the browser to appease this frequent flier is the ability to save pages for offline reading, so I'll likely depend solely on movies and podcasts en route to Barcelona.
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Other studies of gifted girls, she says, show that even though the girls had the ability, fewer than expected ended up reading maths and sciences at university.
Changizi begins by laying out the reasons why reading is not an instinctual skill, but a learned ability.
"Immersive reading technologies will provide a future tablet PC with the ability to be a good read as well as a good write, " Brass said.
While many people may be content reading 12-point Helvetica, bibliophiles will appreciate the ability to fine-tune font weight, line-spacing and even the sharpness of each character.
Doing Business is hardly casual reading, but it gets to the true essentials of a country's ability to grow.
The ability to focus on near objects decreases, which explains why many people need reading glasses as they get older.
But surely the ability to find something because a term appears in a book is not the same thing as reading the book.
Your Disney princess of choice even gets the ability to greet you by name, having known this bit of information beforehand from hidden sensors reading the MagicBand data.
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The emergence of new talent from the east has given German publishers who have long despaired of the ability of scribblers in the western part of the country to write novels which people might enjoy reading something to be cheerful about.
Reading the literature, she realized that many patients suffered something called borderline personality disorder, in which people lack any ability to control everyday emotions.
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The following highlights of Chairman Spence's report should be considered to be required reading for his colleagues and their constituents prior to action on the question of whether further to abet China's ability to engage in ominous activities thanks to the additional wealth the PRC will accrue with PNTR and membership in the World Trade Organization.
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