Sentences with phrase «by early readers»

But marketing occupies about three months of each year, and so by the time I get started on the next book, which has to be written, edited a couple of times, copy edited, read by early readers — a year soon disappears.

I have simply been blown away by the early reader reception of BAD DEEDS.

Not exact matches

Serman points readers to a post by Y Combinator partner Michael Seibel on How to Email Early Stage Investors for more details on the exact format favored by industry bigwigs.

When I wrote a post earlier this year pointing to this classic tweet by Randi Zuckerberg laying out «the entrepreneur's dilemma», it was clear from readers» responses that it struck a nerve.

Readers may recall a Medium post earlier this year by venture capitalist Hunter Walk, in which he described how interacting with Amazon's virtual assistant device Echo, which responds in a female voice to sharp commands addressed to the name «Alexa,» was teaching his young daughter bad manners.

I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup.

Its authors, Norman Dennis and George Erdos (neither of them Catholic) quoted The Ecclesiastical History of England by the Venerable Bede to remind readers of an earlier time when society had been in an equally parlous state.

The earliest of the three (St. Mark) is clearly the work of a writer almost obsessed by the apologetic necessity of somehow making intelligible to his readers the scandalous outcome in rejection and death of the ministry of one whom he clearly believed to be the expected Messiah.

It is hoped that by pursuing certain lines of thought such as those suggested in this chapter, some readers will come to see some new dimensions of the truth of the classic statement by «William James quoted earlier concerning alcohol: «Not through mere perversity do men run after it.»

Such a history of «subjective aim» is possible only because of a compositional idiosyncrasy of Whitehead's: although he revised his position many times, he tried very hard to preserve the texts of earlier positions in the final version, often by insertions designed to persuade the reader to interpret such texts in the light of later positions.

A reader of his article might be quite surprised to learn that Leo XIII declared as early as 1891 that «the public administration must... provide for the welfare and comfort of the working classes»; or that so recent an encyclical as Centesimus Annus pronounced that «the mass of the poor [who] have no resources of their own to fall back on... must chiefly depend on the assistance of the State,» and that «wage - earners... should be specially cared for and protected by the Government.»

Among the early Romantics, Novalis (notably a shrewd reader of Burke's Reflections) appeared troubled by the wholesale expurgation of religious institutions and liturgical practice in revolutionary France.

Stephen's early years at Clongowes are marked by the physical and emotional torment of his classmates and several of the priests; those days away from home are hard for the reader to bear.

Thus, a reader is led from thinking about the patience of God as displayed in the Bible... to early Christian thought as displayed in Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine... to the characteristically medieval emphases of Gregory the Great, Aquinas, and Thomas Kempis... and finally to Calvin, Jeremiah Burroughs, and Kierkegaard - men who, though quite separated in time, represent perspectives shaped by the Reformation.

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.

And, if we go on, how do we tell which meaning or meanings was or were intended by the author or understood by his readers, early or late?

In a really busy year, this month seems to have been the busiest of the lot; I've tried to be creative by combining as many entries to blog challenges as possible — regular readers will have spotted this from earlier posts.

ABC Learning Toys Support Cognitive Development Every early reader starts out by learning their ABC's.

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

Research by Sebastian Suggate for his doctorate in psychology at Otago University found no difference between the reading ability of early (from age five) and late (from age seven) readers by the time those children reached their last year at primary school....

A Green Guide to Your Natural Pregnancy and Birth: the kind way for you, your baby, and the environment by Claire Gillman (2010) aims to give readers useful information about their pre-conception and prenatal care, and preparation for labor, birth and the early postnatal period.

A reader forwarded this very laudatory — and very early — endorsement by The Jewish World of state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli («a mensch for all seasons!»)

This piece from earlier this month by our editor Ian Dunt is one of our most read ever pieces and continues to interest our readers.

A reader noted the one - house spending plan passed earlier this week by the GOP - controlled Senate included — almost verbatim — the NY Uprising budget reform pledge signed by nearly every single member of the chamber, both Democrats and Republicans, during the 2010 campaign.

A reader brought to our attention a 5 - 0 vote last night in which the board of the tony Westchester County town of Bedford gave themselves the authority to override the 2 percent tax cap championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by the Legislature earlier this year.

Despite this, the Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour and urged its readers to vote for the party (now led by Michael Foot), condemning the Thatcher - led Tory government for its «waste of our nation», [38] condemning the rise in unemployment that Thatcher's Conservative government had seen in its first term in power largely due to monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation, though the government's previously low popularity had dramatically improved since the success of the Falklands conflict a year earlier.

Simply Organic ® and mbg are teaming up to encourage readers to put down their phones, step away from their desks, and celebrate going into the weekend a little early by hosting a get - together with friends and loved ones this Thursday night.

I am offering an Early Bird Discount to the program for my newsletter readers only before I make the program public.This means, that if you enroll by June 5th, you'll receive an Early Bird Dicount (The cost of the program will be $ 297, but with your $ 100 off, it brings your enrollment to only $ 197.)

No, it's not Black Friday and you haven't even stuffed your turkey yet but we are kicking off the holiday season early with a few other blogger friends by giving away a $ 160 Sephora gift card to ONE lucky reader!!

(The same goes for the male party guests — played by Timothy Spall [Early Man, Denial], Cillian Murphy [Dunkirk, Free Fire], and Bruno Ganz [The Counsellor, The Reader]-- but diversity of male personality and perspective is never surprising onscreen.)

Regular readers probably know by now how much I love Kelly Reichardt's spare, serene Oregon Trail western «Meek's Cutoff,» which premiered at Venice back in the early days of autumn (how long ago does that feel?)

Schrader credits old friend and NY Film Festival director Kent Jones, an early reader of the script, with helping him to change the ending from one inspired by «The Diary of a Country Priest» to one inspired by «Ordet.»

In response to the article on the disparity in state proficiency standards that Peter Kaplan and I published earlier this week, one reader, Scott McLeod, referred (in a comment) to an article arguing that that «proficiency» as defined by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) does not really mean proficiency.

That's why I've included page by page lesson plans, guided practice worksheets, and text specific reader's notebook prompts for the following strategies: Visualizing Determining Importance Asking Questions Understanding Text Structure Synthesizing I also created an Extension Activity for early finishers.

That's why I've included page by page lesson plans, guided practice worksheets, and text specific reader's notebook prompts for the following strategies: - Retelling and Summarizing - Making Inferences - Making Predictions - Identifying the Author's Purpose I also created an Extension Activity for early finishers.

That's why I've included page by page lesson plans, guided practice worksheets, and text specific reader's notebook prompts for the following strategies: Making Inferences Visualizing Determining Importance Understanding Text Structure Synthesizing I also created an Extension Activity for early finishers.

Readers of a certain age will recall that, early in his presidency, Reagan was confronted with a strike by the nation's air traffic controllers.

The Reach Every Reader collaboration is informed by early literacy research and survey work conducted by CMS and Dr. James Kim of HGSE to create data - driven approaches to double the percentage of children reading proficiently from 40 % to 80 % by 2025.

«Reach Every Reader builds on the district's existing literacy priorities and students will benefit as personalized early literacy learning tools, techniques and practices are developed by Reach Every Reader,» said Dr. Clayton Wilcox, CMS Superintendent.

Delivered by Renaissance Learning, Accelerated Reader aims to help schools foster the habit of independent reading among primary and early secondary pupils of all abilities.

An earlier and smaller EEF - funded randomised trial found Accelerated Reader increased the reading age of pupils by 3 additional months.

Help students to draw conclusions based on the two early readers, Sam the Minuteman and George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley.

This differentiated book study packet correlates to the early reader Buttons for General Washington by Peter and Connie Roop.

In an earlier blog entry, we encouraged state policy makers and educators to rethink what it takes to develop strong readers and the signals sent to schools by accountability measures.

Readers of this blog are familiar with my earlier documentation of the myriad varieties of scoring formulas used by New Mexico to evaluate its teachers.

The event featured special remarks from Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who struggled with dyslexia as a child, and has become a champion for policies that start early to identify struggling readers and ensure more students learn to read proficiently by the time they finish third grade.

We know that the gap between good readers and struggling readers develops as early as by the end of first grade.

The Washington Striving Readers Year 1 Evaluation Report, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, ended two years earlier than planned due to budget cuts by Congress.

Data released earlier this year found that two - thirds of Mississippi's students start kindergarten unprepared and are less likely to be proficient readers by third grade.

This program is designed to be used by students with a variety of reading skills at various reading levels: from non-readers and early readers to established readers already reading above their grade level.