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i think students are lacking foundationl skills
specifically reading and writing 

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I think students are lacking foundational skills, specifically reading and writing .

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Teachers need to expose and teach students how to think critically.

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Families possibly not pushing at home to support the foundational skills

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I think students are reading below grade level .  Which causes them to not understand the questions.

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I think students are reading below grade level .  Which causes them to not understand the questions.

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Maybe they are struggling with decoding and expressing themselves in complete sentences.

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Students are lacking foundational skills

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students who enter our schools after their peers have learned foundational skills have a very large and difficult gap to close....

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Students lack foundational skills and are reading below grade level

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Students lack foundational skills and are reading below grade level

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Unequality in resources.

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Students lack prerequisite skills necessary to read grade level texts.

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DyerMaybe they do not master the basic skills in the lower grades and they have to play catch up once they get to 3rd grade.  

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DyerMaybe they do not master the basic skills in the lower grades and they have to play catch up once they get to 3rd grade.  

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Students are not meeting proficiency because the questions being asked may not be on their level. Students may lack the skills they need to answer the questions. If students are reading below grade level and not interested in the topic, they will not be proficient in answering the questions.

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Perhaps students are reading below grade level.

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Student reading levels

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Students are not meeting proficiency because they lack comprehension of text. They may have excellent decoding skills but they are unable to comprehend fully what they are reading. Literal comprehension might be present but when it comes to understanding questions that goes beyond the text that's where they struggle. They also have limited vocabulary skills with impacts their comprehension severely. Many of the students become overwhelmed when they see large amount of reading in front of them and do not read. They also do no have stamina for testing.

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Students struggle with sharing their thinking.

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Students lack foundational skills.
Gap increases each year.

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I think that the reason is because some of the questions require critical thinking, drawing answers from the text. I also think that the test requires the students to read on grade level, which a majority of my students cannot. I also think that the topics that are required readings on the test are not of importance or interest to the students.

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I think the addition of a phonics based reading program that
encourages and promotes decoding in earlier grades would be helpful

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Students lack critical thinking skills necessary to read complex texts.
Student support