Sentences with phrase «as older readers»

When they want to read a particular e-book, e-book readers under age 30 have the same general habits as older readers.

Some devices — such as the older Reader Pocket and Kobo Reader — are designed purely for reading and skip on extra features, including music playback.

As an older reader, my eyesight has deteriorated to the point where ebooks are the only way I can read, because the text is crisper and I can change the size to suit me.

Not exact matches

(And as regular readers know, my dog didn't die of old age.)

Even as they dissented, several readers admitted that having to charge a phone every day is starting to get old and agreed with at least some of my points.

As the cards drop, readers meet the occupants, among them an elderly woman who remembers the street in post-Blitz ruins, a Pakistani shopkeeper and his quarrelsome brothers and a 17 - year - old soccer prodigy.

Writers in the Old West, would inflate the feats of a gunslinger to thrill their readers, and to establish him as «the fastest gun in the west!».

Readers who enjoy timeless dog stories such as Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows will find much to love in Sounder.»

It is unlikely that they would, as it were, catch the eye of a Christian reader searching the Old Testament for prophecies about Christ, and induce him to think up a story to show that an important prophecy had been fulfilled.

As I continue to research and write about the violence of God in the Old Testament, a reader of my blog told me to read Girard.

As the alert reader knows, it is not society that is doing these things but the courts, which have declared obsolete the old - fashioned notion of government by the consent of the governed.

It is not certain whether Matthew's designation of Jacob as the father of Joseph in 1:16 is intended to evoke the reader's memory of the Old Testament figure.

Unfortunately these will probably date the book and may prove off - putting to older readers or those (perhaps fortunately) unfamiliar with television programmes such as Project Runway and Pimp My Ride.

The reader, who understands this, will also understand that our argument has no interest in nor is affected by marginal and non-typicalcases (as, for instance, the older man who marries and may not be capable of actual insemination).

Readers of the old - fashioned detective story usually approached it as an intellectual puzzle — a «whodunit.»

This difference must be clear to the reader of the Scriptures as soon as he steps from the Old into the New Testament.

This began to change during the rule of the Hindu nationalists, who proved themselves as adept in working with big businessmen as in holding on to its older constituency of small merchants and readers.

Five times in this letter, the author warns his readers what could happen to them if they reject Christianity and return to their old way of living as Jews.

Well, it comes from a 2000 year old book, contradicted by other 2000 year old books, no updates, can be interpreted in so many different ways depending on how the reader perceives his world (and how science has progressed... I'm sure if you were alive before galileo told you the earth did not revolve around the sun and had only the bible as your reference you would come to the same conclusion as the Vatican who said the sun revolved around the earth....

Unlike those activities, naysaying relies on conventional wisdom — as found, say, in vote - seekers from the courthouse, certain regulars at the men's Bible class or readers of old essays in medical ethics.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

By early 1519, Luther's magnetism as a preacher and lecturer, his eloquent and imaginative presentation of current concerns, together with his notoriety, were drawing students, young and old, to Wittenberg and readers to his writings.

An old - fashioned blueberry cake sweetened with molasses adapted from a reader submitted recipe to the July 1974 issue of Gourmet Magazine - rustic, dark as chocolate, tender, and punctuated with lots of tiny pockets of oozy, magenta berry flesh.

The restaurant was also named the «Best Restaurant in Monterey County Over Ten Years Old» by Monterey County Weekly readers, voted the «Top Ten Most Romantic Restaurants on the Central Coast» by Open Table and listed as one of the «Top Ten Seafood Restaurants in Carmel / Monterey» by Gayot.com, in addition to many other honors.

J.A. Sherman, formerly known as «Dogburt,» is a decades - old NBA junkie who is thoroughly enjoying the blogging experience with the writers and readers at WTLC.

There has been one interesting footnote to Arsenal's win over Watford on Saturday that has not really been discussed by the JustArsenal readers, which is the fact that the 21 year - old Matt Macey was named as the substitute keeper ahead of David Ospina, apparently because the Colombian Number One suffered a «sore shoulder» on international duty.

Good readers will thrill to the supertitles above the action — as my 8 - year - old did — and the Lyric's breathtakingly beautiful space evokes a feeling of fanciness like no other.)

Nevertheless, it packs a lot in and is a great little morale - booster, reassuring readers, in response to the belief that breastfeeding «is difficult,» that «with a little support and knowledge almost all women can breastfeed,» and that breastfeeding is «as old as the earth» --» we have just lost the art and skill of doing it.»

As mentioned above, I was already planning on hitting Old Navy for baby basics and things for Laurel post-shower, and then the lovely folks over at BabyCenter (I'm part of their blog network) asked if I wanted to peruse / shop and also offer a gift card to you lovely readers via their sponsorship.

As for the 4 year old she is finally ready to ditch those (ghastly) princess books and, inspired by her sister, read early readers.

As long - time readers know, my older son pretty much potty - trained himself.

Not only does a fluent reader make the transition to being a fluent writer much more easily than a non-fluent reader, but as students get older reading plays an important role in math, science, and social studies, too.

Write an excellent post, and readers will find it, utter the same old opinions as everyone else, and you will get lost in the crowd.

As they get older, it helps them to become independent readers.

For background information, readers should know that on the old GFI message board called «The Forum,» which now exists only as a read - only format, this 45 - minute intruder used to be called the «45 - minute monster.»

If your content is old and doesn't look as though it's regularly updated, why would a casual reader come back?

«These findings for anagram reading show for the first time that sensitivity to letter position, and the privileged status of the exterior letters in words, is well established in readers as young as 8 to 10 years old.»

And I do believe that things are changing, As blog readers grown older, they want, they need, to relate to women in older age ranges.

As you and many readers have pointed out in the comments, I think Shana's point was not that cardigans should never be worn with dresses, but that you shouldn't just throw any old cardigan on for warmth (especially when you're dressing to impress for your reunion!).

And while many readers graduate from fashion glossies to other publications as they get older, newspaper readers are often loyal for life.

Older readers of the site may recognize this dress, as it was featured last spring here on the blog.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

But as those programs for early readers began to fall into place, she says, «the time had finally come to turn full attention to older readers.»

Initiatives like Reading First might have helped our youngsters to decode, goes the argument, but that's not enough to create strong readers, especially as kids get older.

Indeed, Saurer admitted as much when he said, «We didn't really believe that a 10 - or 15 - year - old reading print in school is going to continue on later to be a print reader in their 20s and 30s.»

Unfortunately, teachers who search for research - based strategies to help struggling older readers find that the knowledge base is «sizeable but sketchy, unfocused, and inadequate as a basis for reform in reading comprehension instruction» (p. xii), according to the report.

But Mr Gibb said today that, as a result of PSC, 100,000 more six - year - olds each year are on track to become «confident, proficient readers».

It seemed strange to be read to as most of us were already good readers and would have said we were too old for it, but she enticed us all with great books.

This 5 - year - old girl lacked confidence in her ability as a reader and said people thought she wasn't smart.

By Stefan Johansson In a previous issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Yong Zhao (2012) urged readers to stop worrying so much about the relatively poor performance of American students on measures such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which compares the mathematics, science, and reading achievement of 15 - year - olds from dozens of countries (OECD, -LSB-...]