On an e-reader, it is mainly black and white pictures, but on the iPad it is full color, which tremendously adds to the whole
child book reading.
But all studies that were evaluated included comparisons between parent -
child book reading intervention groups who received training, supportive materials or other encouraging services, and control groups that did not.
Suzanne E. Mol, Adriana G. Bus, and Maria T. de Jong, «Interactive Book Reading in Early Education: A Tool to Stimulate Print Knowledge as Well as Oral Language,» Review of Educational Research 79 (2009): 979 — 1007; Suzanne E. Mol, Adriana G. Bus, Maria T. de Jong, and Daisy J. H. Smeets, «Added Value of Dialogic Parent -
Child Book Readings: A Meta - Analysis,» Early Education and Development 19 (2008): 7 — 26; and National Early Literacy Panel, Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel (Washington, DC: National Institute for Literacy, 2008).
Not exact matches
[With it,] she went from a
child who couldn't hold a single letter in her head to someone who was able to
read words and sentences and chapter
books and able to effectively communicate with people around her.
In January 2008, two and a half years after founding Etsy, Kalin posted a video on the company's blog of himself
reading a
children's
book.
She enjoys
reading business
books, playing the violin and trying new restaurants with her husband and five
children.
She plans to run her business from home and personally market her
books in hospitals, day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will
read her stories to
children and sell the
books to parents.
Keeping their volunteers motivated means letting them see the results of their efforts, whether it's the smile on a hungry
child's face when they receive the food package a volunteer packed, or the first
book a learning disabled
child reads after months of tutoring.
For instance, if you're running a Facebook page that features
children's
books and you run across a great list of 100
books every
child should
read, you may be tempted to just post a link to that list as a status update.
«Though made for
children, this
book has served me as a metaphor for business since I
read it to my son 25 years ago.
Bennett says he
reads even more
children's
books («at least two a day») with his daughter, who serves as the basis for his own
books» main character.
So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly
book swaps, a
children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author
readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.
We compared
children from the same social backgrounds who achieved similar tested abilities at ages five and 10, and discovered that those who frequently
read books at age 10 and more than once a week when they were 16 had higher test results than those who
read less.
I learnt this eventually, in the course of general
reading, from a
book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's
book to all my
children.
You've
read enough
children's
books to last you a lifetime, but have you given any thought to writing one?
You need to
read a
book, even a
childrens book if thats your intelligence level so you can expand your mind b / c you have the mind of a nomad.
Instead, Prof. Ashford
reads from a
children's
book about a runaway bunny whose mother promises to find him wherever he goes, and manages to elicit from it the comforting message that God will seek out the soul no matter where it hides.
I laid with him in his hospital bed when he was still conscious and began
reading scripture to him from a little
book he had received 80 years earlier as a
child in England.
The fact that you are uneducated is not the issue of those of us who are...
read a science
book for a change and get your head out of that 2000 year old
book... only
children and schizophrenics have imaginary friends..
Read your
book of fables (aka bible)... don't dismiss the parts condoning rape; slavery;
child abuse; oppression of women and LGBT; murder.
I would like to see some real loving father get away with just leaving a
book for his «
children» to
read and then never be heard from again.
I fear for all my fellowman, including some of my
children and siblings and wish they would just do the simple thing —
read the
Book of Mormon with real intent, wanting to know if it is true or not.
He was arrested in 2009 after he lodged a protest with local education officials after learning his
child was being forced to
read from the Quran, the Muslim holy
book, in school.
I can't wait to see the new text
books that
children ages 5 an up must now
read which glorify the achievements of gay.
In such a silence, if you have turned off the television and tempted your
child away from his games with a good
book, you can hear other things: the chatter and call of cardinals who have found the birdseed; the crack of a log in the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired
child (or parent) who has dozed while
reading; the soft thud of a
book sliding to the floor.
In her latest
book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state
reading and math tests mandated by the No
Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.
I have sat in the shade leaning against its rough, ridged bark, noticing how its roots distend and break through the surface of the soil, as I
read a
book or watch my
children ride their bikes.
She's been
reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a
book off a shelf and share it with a
child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.
Reading aloud to the
children has been like gathering kindling daily — lighting
children to
read books on their own, flaming their interest in
books they might have otherwise passed over.
Once I
read a
book about a
child who was kidnapped (I can't
read those kinds of
books anymore, so this must have been many years ago).
There are so many different people and age groups who
read that
book but I hear from you all most: the late - teens and twenty - something women, the ones in high school, university or college, sometimes you're newly married, rarely do you have
children yet.
When many of us
read the Anne
books, we were
children.
I have always
read for oxygen, my only punishment as a
child was to have my
books taken away from me.
When I was a
child,» Marilynne Robinson began an early essay, «I
read books.»
I took the
book to my boss and told him that I was NOT going to
read that to five and six year old
children.
It was an RCC sanctioned
book, complete with imprimatur, that had been placed in my classroom by the curriculum development experts in the diocese with the expectation that I would
read it to the
children.
I've been to church a handful or so of times, and I've
read children's
books about Christ, growing up.
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All those hours spent
reading by dim firelight the same
book over and over (the way little
children still like to be
read to) were to contribute to Lincoln's being the foremost master of prose among our Presidents.
Andrea Yates, the Texas mom who drowned her five
children in a bathtub in 2001, believed they «were «stumbling» into the throes of the devil and were going to burn in the fires of eternity,» said Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia law professor,
reading from his criminal law teaching
book.
70 years ago I could have shown you scores of
children in HItler's youth leagues who could
read Mein Kampf without looking at the
book.
John Delaney, editor of Catholic
books for Doubleday, has figured out that so many Americans have bought Bibles during the past ten years that one out of every three of them (excluding
children who can't
read) should he able to quote chapter and verse in unison.
A
child delights in seeing animals, meeting new people,
reading familiar
books over and over, and a million other little pleasures that we adults take for granted.
Reading all the
books about 2012, and listening to all the doom and gloom sermons, attending all the prayer meetings about the end of the world, and watching the Discovery channel special about Mayan calendars and aliens from space and Egyptian pyramid tunnels, OR loving our neighbors, serving our spouses, teaching our
children, working hard at our jobs, and helping where people are hurting?
There are, however, other ways to face death, and Charlotte's Web is not the only
child's
book that will bear many
readings.
Oh ya because most of the
book contains sick things that if it was any other
book you wouldn't allow your
children to
read.
One is the reality system of face - to - face encounter with other people, working at the office or store or home, taking care of the
children or visiting with neighbors, playing with the kids and tending the yard,
reading books and telling stories and remembering the past and planning for the future.
I think I would enjoy Dylans
book, I have only been
reading books for a short time now, my friend from church, loaned me Angels in my hair, by Lorna byrne, I was hooked straight away,,,, Not having much schooling as a
child this is also helping me with
reading skills....
The man who performs religious rites without observing their hidden meanings is, according to them, like a
child who
reads the words of a
book without understanding them.
There are whole chapters of John's Gospel that I would like to snip right out of the
book so that no
child ever has to
read what John said Jesus said about Jews.