Sentences with phrase «as assigned readings»

The organization tracks the reading habits of some 10 million US students at all grade levels through its Accelerated Reader program, in which students record and take quizzes about books they read, both independently and as assigned reading.

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For a number of vacations I assigned myself the great poems I failed to read as an undergraduate.

(The parallel passage, Luke 12:48, should read that the wicked servant is assigned his place with the unfaithful, not with the unbelievers as most translations have it.)

Even if one can in principle assign implicit prices to in - kind goods and services, in practice pricing the unpriced can be deviously difficult, as can be seen by reading the methods sections of papers in environmental economics as they come up with absurdly varying estimates of how to value an un-dammed river.

But as you read, just recognize that there are other ways of dealing with the violence in Scripture than by assigning these activities to God and calling them «good and just.»

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

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The educational sessions were internally developed by the authors using standard texts and review articles, with additional input from local lactation consultants and pediatrician colleagues.1, 2,10 — 14 Residents were assigned standard review articles and other readings before and during the intervention to facilitate their participation in the activities.1, 10 — 14 The series was structured as follows:

Even with building political pressure to launch a convention that is fully or partially constituted by citizens, it will be at the whim of Parliament (read the governing party / parties) following the next general election as to whether such a convention is established, its form and the task assigned.

When I started, I was assigned to read the following paper: «Lipidomics identifies cardiolipin oxidation as a mitochondrial target for redox therapy of brain injury» (Ji et al., 2012).

After recruiting a sample of 587 demographically diverse parents and their first - grade children in the Chicago area, they randomly assigned some families to use a math - based iPad app that involved reading short stories and answering questions on topics such as counting, shapes, and problem solving.

The day - to - day functions of the scientific directors are to act as contact points for potential applicants, read around 700 applications to check for eligibility and to assign them to members of the review committee, provide support to applicants and reviewers throughout the process, and maintain close contact with the awardees.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and Leipzig, Germany, have found that learning to read as an adult reconfigures brain areas hitherto assigned to different skills.

There are many locations in the genome where initially unmapped DNBs can be and are correctly included in assembly as described in Why are there reads in the evidenceDnbs file assigned to a particular locus that are not mapped to that location in the initial mappings files?

As you know, I quite often read and review books for TLC Book Tours, and those books are reviewed on assigned dates.

Although written directly for the screen, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» shares its title with a zoology textbook, written by one Newt Scamander, that popped up as assigned Hogwarts reading in «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.»

Sam Worthington stars as a deadly assassin assigned to kill a young woman named El... [Read More]

Having been assigned kennel duty (read: mopping up dog shit) for peeing outside the officers barracks, Megan has seen Rex as his worst.

Our Creative Advisor, Katherine Dieckmann, explained that we would read each of the selected scenes as a group, have a brief discussion, and then she would assign each of us a task.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

This e-book product is a companion book study that may be utilized in several different ways including: (1) individual professional development to renew your own professional growth and learning; (2) a faculty and staff book study as a summer or really anytime of the year book study for professional growth; (3) a guide or workbook for an assigned reading in a graduate course; and (4) maybe an entire faculty and staff summer read to help better understand the world of dyslexia as part of a school improvement process!

As a teacher, I very rarely assigned writing assignments that no one else but myself read.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

Among students who are assigned by lottery to see live theater, knowledge of the plots of those plays as well as the vocabulary used in those productions is significantly enhanced, above and beyond what they learn by reading those works or by seeing film versions (see Figure 1).

Teachers who knew their students would attend the play were almost twice as likely to assign students to read or watch movies to prepare for the theater field trip.

Yes, we need to make sure we are arming students with the skills and stamina to read texts that are complex; where the task assigned to students is rigorous, the quality level of the text is high, and the Lexile levels and other quantitative indicators are high as well.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Could you work with a small group of students as they read an assigned chapter?

Shortly after I began teaching as a provisionally certified elementary - school teacher, I remember counting myself lucky that I was assigned to teach 5th grade, since I hadn't been taught the first thing about teaching children to read.

Instead of assigning a work for all students as an assignment for AP, gather students at the end of the academic year in order to provide them with opportunities to examine what goals they have for summer reading...»

Assigning reflections, asking learners to blog, or posing forum prompts that allow focused sharing of personal stories can be ways of allowing learners to make meaning through their own stories as well as through reading coworkers» stories.

I've tried assigning as student reading with poor results and perhaps the best takeaway is the title itself, which provides a profound insight into thinking about the web.

Similarly, assigning whole chapters to read without specific guidance as to what to look for also will result in low memory.

Pleasure reading can be defined as reading that is freely chosen or that readers freely and enthusiastically continue after it is assigned.

According to Kohn, teachers should only assign homework when they can justify that the assignments are «beneficial» (2006a, p. 166)-- ideally involving students in activities appropriate for the home, such as performing an experiment in the kitchen, cooking, doing crossword puzzles with the family, watching good TV shows, or reading.

The real battles will come when stories surface of teachers assigning controversial texts as required readings.

Some chapters I assign as homework, and some we share by reading aloud.

In the fall of kindergarten, participants were assigned standardized tasks of reading and memory as well as experimental tasks of phonological awareness, letter identification, rapid naming, and phonological memory.

Do you want her to read and discuss classic literature, explore and propose solutions to real world problems, develop strong reasoning and math skills and have real life experiences as part of assigned work?

The assigned course readings included New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011) as well as various articles (e.g., Lapp, Moss, & Rowsell, 2012; New London Group, 1996; Street, 1995).

Building upon the work of Juan Carlos Castro (2012), as well as Sarah Mathews and Erin Adams (2016), photomissions prompt teacher candidates to read an assigned text and then take a photograph of a concept they identified from the reading.

Facing History designed this planning guide for schools that want to assign Wonder as a whole - school or whole - grade read.

For instance, when I assigned an article or an essay to read for homework, instead of giving Keith the graphic organizer I gave the other students, I gave him one with additional clues, such as the page numbers where he could find the information he needed to fill in.

Through assigned readings, classroom discussions, content rich mathematics activities, and assignments that require data collection in your field placement, you will be supported as you make sense of how to approach the profession of teaching.

Many of us would agree that as textbooks and other assigned reading materials grow in terms of difficulty, vocabulary, and structure, it is critical that we collectively help our secondary students continue to refine their reading skills and strategies, as a mechanism to help prepare them for college and career success.

The reading, science, and math coaches help me monitor student reading skills using the online reading skills evaluations, and as a student achieves a higher reading level, through the data and the software, we assign them to guided reading groups.

I did not expect to like it, as this is how most assigned reading tend to go.

It also has a lot of short and informative articles you could assign as at home reading with classroom discussion such as: The 10 Worst Credit Card Mistakes You Should Never Make, How to Use the Grace Period to Avoid Paying Interest, and 8 Key Things to Know about Credit Card Debt.

Knowing that it may be difficult or intimidating for ELLs to publicly express their thoughts about their reading, effective teachers assign some hands - on book response projects, such as making posters, mobiles, and dioramas, which allow ELLs to demonstrate artistic and comprehension skills.

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