51.   The children found it harder to recognize and understand speech, and that had adversely affected their reading skills.

52.   The exams would test only reading skills in fourth-graders and arithmetic ability in eighth-graders.

53.   The education budget would contain modest increases for poor children and for upgrading reading skills.

54.   The goal of the fund-raiser is to provide books and reading programs so every child in Los Angeles can improve reading skills.

55.   The journal Nature reported that schooling in the arts and music leads to major improvements in reading skills and math.

56.   The version of Sandiego for older children requires some reading skills and deductive reasoning.

57.   These tests, even in their much-maligned multiple-choice forms, are highly correlated with each other and with real-world reading skills.

58.   Third-grade students with poor reading skills are more likely to drop out by the time they reach high school.

59.   They meet and bond after the bright little kid is assigned to tutor and improve the reading skills of the slow, inhibited bigger kid next door.

60.   To develop early reading skills for preschoolers, teachers would use nursery rhymes, rhyming games and encourage discussion after reading picture books to the group.