Sentences with phrase «early readers who»

Prepare your manuscript to professional standards, gather a tribe of early readers who will become your superfans, build a platform on the web, make sure your book lands on the right virtual shelves, and be free to self - publish or get an agent and a traditional publishing deal.

Also, a brilliant illustrator was one of the early readers who inspired me, and so my main character, Seramis Helleborine, took visual form under the pen of Marjorie Schott, http://www.facebook.com/WaterstriderDesign.

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Beyond Reisman's ambition to offer «the best reading application» anywhere (and early reviews of the software have been favourable), the Kobo experience caters to a reader who is stealing moments throughout their busy day in which to read, on whatever device they happen to have at hand.

Hays also seems narrow when he encourages readers to read the OT principally as narrative and not as a «source of oracles, prooftexts, or halakhic regulations,» apparently disqualifying many early Christian authors who cited Scripture in this way.

In an earlier essay, Hill quotes a writer familiar to readers of First Things, Eve Tushnet, who also embraces a gay identity.

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.»

Perhaps most poignantly, one reader who read the book in light of the pedophilia scandals and the church's early secrecy about them says, tentatively but tellingly: «With all that is going on in the Catholic Church today, it makes you wonder if some of the fiction is actually true.»

As Edwards concludes, «In general, the messages sent were not always the messages received, and the historian who seeks to reconstruct the early Reformation message and its appeal must pay at least as much attention to the context of its readers (and hearers) as to the text that they read (or had presented to them).»

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.

A reader who is interested could look up the earlier versions and compare or adapt as they saw fit.

First, a big thank you to all the Lunch Tray readers who took the time to visit our Lunch Box Idea Exchange earlier this month and post their «go - to» lunchbox items for the rest of us to read.

I'm located in Houston, so naturally most early readers of this blog were also Houstonians, either people who knew me or knew my friends.

Earlier this month I shared with you my interview with Andrew Wilder, blogger at Eating Rules, who each October leads thousands of readers in cutting out processed food.

The pro-GOP reader I referenced in my earlier post who questioned the veracity Hasidic sample ballot I posted forwarded a second version that is also being handed out in Williamsburg today.

A reader forwarded this Oct. 31 letter to all agency commissioners from state Budget Director Bob Megna, who reiterated that «through the implementation of management efficiencies and the smart use of technology, your agency spending must not exceed» the cash ceiling level set in early May.

Oh, and you'll probably lose your abs (to the 76 percent of the remaining 14 percent of readers who left us earlier in the article - SEE YA!).

Chas Smith, who ghost wrote most of the articles in the early Weider publications, has explained this and Reg Park warned readers of the same thing through the pages of his own magazine (the Reg Park Journal).

A Nordstrom Debit card also grants early access if you have those readers who prefer not to do credit cards.

I've created an e-book called How to Be Loved and it basically takes each of the elements of the emotional core that I talked about earlier and just provides the reader with any number of daily reminders of areas to think about in order to be someone who would be more appealing to a future partner.

Social network analysis has its theoretical roots in the work of early sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim, who wrote about the Traffikd is an internet marketing and social media blog that aims to provide readers with practical, relevant information that they can use in their own

Don Jensen, a DSL reader who first started drag racing in California in 1950, interviewed Jack Hagemann (1916 - 2009) in 2007 about the early years of drag Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more.

But as Ronnie Scheib — who reviewed Monday Morning for the Reader when it showed at the Chicago International Film Festival last fall, declaring it a masterpiece — aptly noted, «Though often compared to Tati, Iosseliani depends less on a central comic actor than on limpid compositions of collective portraiture, like the social canvases of Bunuel or early Jean Renoir.»

The state also invested substantial support for early readers and focused on retaining 3rd graders who fail to read at grade level; state law allows for, but does not require, those students to be held back, which both Skandera and Martinez criticized as insufficient in a state with exceptionally low rates of adult literacy.

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

Read Write Inc is intended for early infants readers and also children in Years 3 and 4 who are still having difficulty with speed and accuracy.

The children who had been introduced to formal instruction in reading later than the others, however, were more motivated and spontaneous readers than those who had begun early.

Studies of early readers, those who are able to read phonemically on entering kindergarten, have found similar results.

Conclusions Children who entered first grade with the weakest knowledge of the alphabet, phonemic awareness, and other early literacy foundations were most likely to be on - grade - level readers at the end of first grade if they were in a reading group which had a structured phonics format until February and in which a «no nonsense» approach to discipline was taken.

That is why I worked with the General Assembly this year to increase funding for early reading intervention services for young readers who need extra help and to require schools to partner with parents in developing plans to help these students before they are promoted to the fourth grade.»

readers may recall an earlier blog post that reported on the work of fellow education blogger Gary Rubinstein who has investigated Mass Insight's activities in other states.

In the early 1960's, as the United States was becoming the leading economy in the world, the International Paper Company posted an ad in every edition of The Reader's Digest which said: «Send me a man who reads».

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.

Dr. Louisa Moats - «Teaching Those Who Teach Reading: How We Develop Expertise» Dr. Joe Torgesen - «Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers» Dr. Barbara Foorman - «Early Interventions for Struggling Readers» Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams - «Soliloquy Learning Reading Assistant» Dr. Jan Hasbrouck - «Collaborative Coaching» www.theinstituteforliteracyandlearning.org/library.php Back to Top

Kids who don't get to study science and social studies — especially in the early grades — don't become great readers.

And as someone who also read to their children on a daily basis from their earliest days, I can certainly attest to the notion that the developmental issues related to become readers is highly variable.

First, children who possess high degrees of phonemic awareness in kindergarten or early in first grade are very likely to be good readers throughout their elementary school careers.

The research is clear; children who develop strong phonemic awareness skills at an early age are more likely to become fluent readers and better spellers than children who do not.

Those SEMA News readers who have been around the block once or twice may recall the early days of the hot - rod scene and how it progressed from the street to the strip, spawning countless businesses and institutions.

Although success in the UK is too early to assess given that we only launched in April, we've had really positive response to our launch titles from the media, fellow publishers who've been very supportive with their advice and the readers.

Early on, when science fiction was a genre only read by science geeks and kids who built their own telescopes, readers felt that they were the aliens in the larger real world.

I have a mailing list now and readers are responsive, but I also missed opportunities to put people on the list who requested to be there early on, because I didn't take that part seriously enough.

These six sparkling poetry books speak to young readers of all ages, addressing a symphony of subjects with creativity, humor and style.STARTING SMALLIn the introduction to Wee Rhymes: Baby's First Poetry Book, longtime collaborators Jane Yolen and artist Jane Dyer explain how vital poetry is: «Children who are given poetry early will have a fullness inside.

Readers follow Scott McGrath, a journalist who watched his career crumble after leveling a threat against Stanislas Cordova — an elusive cult filmmaker reminiscent of early horror visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock and Dario Argento.

Obediently, with no idea how to do what she was asking me (writers write alone, for the most part), I reached out to find readers who might want to play in my world early on and help propel me through the dense fabric of the world I was creating from the strongest but most gossamer of story threads.

Like audiobooks, translations and foreign marketing will be a barrier to entry for many, but those authors who hop on board in the next couple of years can establish themselves early on with massive numbers of readers.

This (R - to - L) volume is actually part of a re-release of earlier volumes that presents the story «unflipped» for readers who want to own the series in its original orientation.

Also, you may want to cultivate a separate list for beta readers and superfans who receive early free copies of your work.

Barnes & Noble said Sunday that its Nook reader won't be available in stores until Dec. 7, and noted earlier that only customers who ordered one before Nov. 20 would receive it for the holidays.

The people who have been the initial adopters of e-book readers tend to be like lots of early adopters of other technologies.

In Another Brooklyn, her first «adult» novel in 20 years — a distinction that is meaningless to all the adults who've read her earlier work and all the young adults who will certainly read this one — she pulls the same trick, making the political personal and the personal universal, allowing readers to see another world and themselves in her gorgeous words.