Sentences with phrase «do reading textbooks»

Kids, in contrast, now spend more time reading nutritional labels than they do reading textbooks, Highlights for Children, or newspapers.

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Here is why: If a student believes «positively enough» that he or she will get straight «A «s yet they never read the textbooks or study for the exams, what do you think will happen?

Surgeons read textbooks, patient's and their bodies do not».

«It's almost like you read the economic textbook and did the opposite of what it said to do,» Zandi said.

The duties of accountants read like a textbook example of work that can be done remotely.

We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

They're reading boring but effective textbooks full of information reinforced in the class's power point presentations, doing very practical group projects (often in labs), and being challenged by detail - driven objective tests.

Because he has avoided imposing a strong central interpretive plot, it does not read like a novel; but it does not read like a textbook either, which is to say that it is quite palatable, especially if taken at a careful pace.

Time you pulled out some science textbooks and did some reading.

These diverse writers each had very different target audiences, disparate life circumstances and specific agendas for their work; so we don't approach each book the same way — for the same reason you wouldn't read a poem about leaves the same way you read a botany textbook.

You don't read a history textbook the same way you read a book of poetry.

The instructors put the two of us in a room together for hours on end to read our textbooks, do our research, and quiz each other about what could possibly be on the exams.

Gunter's essay once and for all sets to rest the most popular criticism of Bergson that is made by process philosophers and repeated in textbooks and popular media by writers who do not bother to read Bergson for themselves.

Maybe it's because being back at school I need to stay up super late making lesson plans / reading textbooks / doing...

Dad is tired and nervous, and most people haven't spent their lives reading obstetrical textbooks and don't know all the details involved.»

It could mean getting one of those reading light headbands and sitting in the room doing crossword puzzles or reading Lucky magazine or constitutional law textbooks while the baby sleeps.

I have to smile, I guess my babies never read the textbook, both of them nursed every 2 hours 24 hours a day for years:) They also never slept a good 6 to 8 hour stretch for at least 10 years, thank goodness for teenagehood and longer sleeps, of course I am older now and the one doing all the night waking.

After reading this post, we checked out Galore Park and a year on sees my kids doing so well following their textbooks.

During the boycotts, I was eager to keep up with my schoolwork, so I read my textbooks and did personal studies.

Says Gomez: «I think that textbooks are a nice prelude to the kind of reading an adult has to do when they're reading science articles in The New York Times or in their local newspaper and they're trying to make sense of the big ideas they're being presented.»

What he did have, however, was the arrogance and swagger of somebody who'd read a few muscle magazines or kinesiology textbooks and now considers himself an authority amongst an otherwise «uneducated» group of gym grunts.

Like all the other students in Joanna Ecke's American - literature class at Wilton High School here, Sister M. Andrina Logan dutifully carries her textbook to class four days a week and does the required readings by Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin.

It is suggested that these be used when the on - level or nearly on level student do the textbook readings and activities.

I was comfortable there, but the only approach to learning I'd ever known was pretty dull: read the textbook, do the homework, take the test.

Joy Hakim: When I saw the textbooks my kids brought home from school, and listened to their anguish about having to read them, I decided to see what I could do.

You will have to teach them how to do almost everything because they've been so conditioned to read a question and find the answer staring back at them in bold print on the page of a textbook - to search for answers in current events reports is much harder.

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How do we connect student interests to their textbook or other required reading?

One third of children aged six to 17 said there was a designated time during the school day to read a book they had chosen independently (not textbooks), but only 17 per cent do it every or almost every school day.

It is suggested that these be used when the on level or nearly on level student do the textbook readings and activities.

Just as preschoolers learn math by operating a pretend store instead of doing work sheets, he suggests high schoolers learn government by staging a mock Congress rather than reading a textbook.

And a recent South African study from 2014 found «students, especially girls, do better on reading tests when they have their own copies of textbooks».

Referring back to our example of Jerome's homework completion rate, we could propose the following hypothesis: Jerome submits 40 % of the total homework in his History course because he does not have a reading fluency level that matches the reading fluency level of the textbook from which assignments are created.

As a result, too many students don't learn much from textbooks that they can't read.

What would you do if all of your students read the textbook and studied online lecture videos BEFORE each class?

This textbook continues ot advocate for teaching literacy skills in the context of reading and writing, and doing so in ways that young children learn best, including play.

One student may think that means to read quietly in the textbook until you return, another may think you'll be quite pleased that she didn't set anything on fire.

A recent Atlantic Magazine article chronicled the severe underfunding of East Hartford schools, where schools have to choose between a reading interventionist and an AP course, and they must photocopy textbooks because they don't have enough.

Your teacher just wants you to learn the material you're supposed to know, and if you use the following effective reading tips for textbooks, you'll be sure to do that.

Unlike both generations of R8 the new TT RS Roadster does more or less read from the very well thumbed Audi dynamic textbook — huge grip and traction, plenty of body control and lots of stability, but gentle understeer beyond the limit and not much by way of excitement — but it does so while feeling lighter on its toes and more agile than ever before.

When I was in high school this became a problem because I would do is hide the book I was reading inside a textbook, so instead of reading the textbook, I read a novel.

Any book that has charts, graphics, or images would be much better to read in color and most of my books do have that, especially the textbooks I use in my classes.

Amazon has released the specifics on its new textbook creator app, Kindle Textbook Creator, and while it doesn't look like it has much to offer in the way of never - before - seen... [Read more...]

And because it's built into an actual novel, they don't have to feel like they're reading a textbook.

You almost need replica editions on a tablet to be able to do page numbers accurately, but it defeats the purpose of buying an e-reader to read e-books or textbooks.

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.

While the idea didn't seem to get the attention that things like embedded content for tablet - based textbooks received, soundtrack reading is getting a new life through Booktrack.

Kindle 3 is for reading books (as opposed to marking up textbooks) and that doesn't really need touch.