With rich language and a delightfully dark nighttime palette, this pleasing rhyme begs to be acted out or performed with puppets.
She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments
with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»
Not exact matches
«My sleeping mind plays
with rich strands of
language, walks
with metaphor, ponders the ambiguous and beautiful.
Content -
rich messages
with plain, professional
language were often even humorous or provocative to get people's attention.
Semitic
languages are so
rich with layers of metaphor and allusion that we can't possibly understand their picture of God by reading the scriptures in English.
To ignore these principles of interpretation is to distort the text just as much as if you ignored the principle of reading poetry as poetry
with all the
rich meaning of figurative
language and chose rather to read it like it was a science text book.
Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture
with its own
language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a
rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.
With more than twenty words in the Eskimo
language to describe snow, some observers suggest that Eskimos actually experience snow in a
richer and more variegated form than non-Eskimos.
John has another such parable, in which the thought takes a deeper turn: «A grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground and dies; but if it dies, it bears a
rich harvest»; 27 and then,
with an echo of Luke's
language about «hating» one's own life, «The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself [in this world] will be kept safe [for eternal life].»
The more prosaic minds have not been happy
with it, and some of the philosophers of
language, in spite of their use of stories, have difficulty
with the
rich, mythic, paradoxical imagery.
The
language of theology is filled
with the
rich diversity of namarupa, but Brahman stands as the final judgment over whether any name or form is adequate to represent reality.
To equate a mere footballer moving clubs, whoever and wherever that be,
with being a traitor shows a lack of education, non existent journalism skills and incorrect but hyped use of our
rich language.
It is interesting to hear Wenger state in the last few days that he hoped Cesc will be
with us for a good 2 or 3 seasons, just when it coincided
with Barcelona declaring that they are making drastic cuts to their wage bill on and off the field.They literally have no cash to spend and though asset
rich, the effects of the Spanish economy are taking affect.I think Cesc has accepted that and will show full commitment to Arsenal.He is pivotal to any success we may achieve.His whole body
language has changed, he looks generally much more content, and he can put to the back of his mind, at least for the time being any proposed move, and that for us is a good thing.Barca are disguising their troubles by saying yet again they have made no official approach to our club, purely to save face.
While babies may not speak their first word for a year, they are born ready to communicate
with a
rich vocabulary of body movements, cries and visual responses: all part of the complex
language of infant behavior.
But if you want to dig further and learn how a child's brain and nervous system develop, or understand Siegel's revolutionary theory of Mindsight, on which the tips are based, The Whole - Brain Child provides a
rich and illuminating tour of scientific insights — all there in easy - to - read
language, illustrated
with real scenarios.
Also, the
language used isn't as
rich as when traditional toys are played
with.
The more time parents spend talking
with their child the
richer the
language development of that child.
In two half - hour sessions each week over a two - year period, home visitors teach parents how to read and play
with their children, promoting positive parent - child interaction, literacy development, and a
language -
rich home environment.
Both Labour and the Lib Dems are getting nervous
with the toxic Europhobic atmosphere that is quickly spreading from Westminster to the rest of the country and have started to mutter reserves about the EU by using
language that is
rich on Eurosceptic iconography.
Mr Marfo, who spoke the Twi
language punctuated
with some English, was heard bemoaning why Akan - speaking people, whose regions are
rich with natural resources, are not the ones at the helm of managing those resources.
Now, a new study presented at the Evolution of Language meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, last month shows that young speakers of one of these
languages — Israeli Sign Language — have come up
with richer, more grammatically complex ways of signing that use ever more parts of the body for different purposes.
In a related study published recently in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect, Valentino found that maltreating parents, many of whom had experienced childhood trauma, could successfully be taught to use more elaborative and emotion -
rich reminiscing
with their preschool - aged children, which has been linked to a children's subsequent cognitive abilities in a number of areas including memory,
language and literacy development.
The organization works closely
with families through home visits to help parents take on the role as a child's first teacher, Garcia said, encouraging «
language -
rich relationships» that build a child's vocabulary and processing abilities.
Some reasons for this difference may be that memories that stick around longer may have
richer detail associated
with them and increasing
language skills enable an older child to better elaborate the memory, further cementing it in their minds, Bauer says.
«Children
with Williams syndrome have elaborate and
rich vocabularies and use very descriptive, affect -
rich expressive
language, which makes their speech very engaging.»
Abner relies primarily on the Ruby on Rails platform and his experience
with server - side programming
languages to create back - ends to support
rich internet experiences.
So if you happen to share the same character and share the common
language with a
rich man, your chances of a
rich men dating will increase greatly.
About Blog Beautiful Sun Montessori School offers a a fully bilingual program (English and Dutch) combined
with a
rich learning curriculum in subjects such as
language, mathematics, science, geography, music and art.
And while this is clearly a plot - driven kind of movie, there were still some moments where the
language and the situations were
rich with poetry.
And that gives you a shared history,
language, a shorthand, so when you're writing for them, when you're acting, it makes all of those directors who work
with the same people, makes their films so
rich.
For the second year running, the Cannes Palme d'Or victor proved more than worthy of the title, as Cantet bounced back from the curious diversion of «Heading South» to make a boundary - defying social document, impossibly
rich in its scope, compassion and obsession
with the limitless possibilities of
language and conversation.
The learner needs to find the content quickly, and more importantly to find the type of content aligned
with their learning and
language profile, audio - based podcasts or visually
rich videos and multimedia interactions, text -
rich PDFs or WORD documents.
Catherine Snow: Incorporating
Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine S
Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children
with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and
rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine S
rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.
Every day, along
with some facts from literary history, this podcast by Garrison Keillor features a different poem, often lesser known but
rich in
language and meaning.
Gillim, a former teacher and education media professional, developed the character and series
with an explicit purpose to enrich young audiences» vocabulary, close the gap for those who don't grow up in
language -
rich environments, instill a love of
language, and foster better reading comprehension.
«Balance does not mean mindless eclecticism,» the report warned; «balance involves a program that combines skills involving phonological awareness and decoding
with language and literature -
rich activities.»
Among these is the likelihood that, in the race to meet standards, schooling will be reduced to following schedules and scripts; that time spent
with literature and
rich language will be driven out by vocabulary workbooks; that learning science will become merely the memorization of a string of definitions of technical terms; in short, that American anti-intellectualism (on which I have more to say) will triumph in a haze of bean counting.
The report prescribes providing children
with the
language -
rich environments — in homes, community settings, early education programs, and schools — that create the foundation for reading.
Whether you teach biology, history, or
language arts, the Web is a
rich and ever - growing resource,
with curriculum ideas for integrating environmental issues into lesson plans.
The open access archive contains thousands of authentic texts in Indigenous
languages of the Northern Territory, many
with English translations and
rich illustrations.
Language provides the foundation for the development of self - regulatory skills, enabling students to express themselves and negotiate interactions
with others; the demands of these self - regulatory processes in turn can support the development of
rich vocabulary and social
language skills.
EDSITEment Created by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site for K - 12 teachers is
rich with lesson plans on art and culture, foreign
languages, history and social studies, and literature and
language arts.
Both programs stressed the importance of high quality
language interactions (back and forth conversations, shared book readings, and
rich vocabulary), nutrition (prenatal and beyond), and healthy parenting strategies (feeding and sleeping routines, strategies to deal
with misbehavior and so on).
Poetry provides us
with a
rich vehicle for helping children explore how
language sounds and works.
In short, all children — but especially the poor who grow up without the
language and book exposure to help them succeed — should be getting early - literacy instruction that balances basic skills
with playful, content -
rich language experiences.
Finding teachers
with basic skills in another
language isn't difficult, but finding teachers who are able to have «content -
rich conversation
with understanding of the cultural implications,... that's a little more challenging,» he said.
His focus on urban literacy deals
with teachers and schools creating
language rich environments as well as print
rich environments.
Reception classes provide a supportive environment for children to learn
language but we know that not all children have had the same opportunities to develop their
language skills before starting school,
with some children experiencing a more
language rich environment than others.
The program was designed to provide a practical, meaningful, technology - based field experience for teacher candidates, while providing student learners
with language -
rich, technologically enhanced learning situations and inviting VIPs into the educational process.
Promoting word consciousness: creating a
language -
rich classroom
with a wide variety of reading options