Sentences with phrase «encourage social reading»

It is designed to be easily assembled by kids into a small interactive fiction game box, and encourage social reading, learning, and play.

Not exact matches

Not only do blogs provide great content to your visitors (read: user experience) they also encourage social media sharing and interaction, which leads to social signals, which is what I've been talking about for the last few paragraphs!

«Parents could begin with a discussion of current events and the news, reading children's books about important historical figures who have championed social equalities, encouraging children to participate in small acts to conserve water and resources, and visits to urban and rural areas,» she says.

A parliamentary inquiry into parenting and social mobility has called on the next government to do more to encourage the UK's early years services to engage with men — and to fund a national reading campaign for dads and children.

We encourage you to look at our stories on social media, read our website, and learn as much as you can about the Waldorf School of Garden City.

This encourages them to tune out social media business and tune in to reading.

Founded by siblings Catherine, Dave, and Geoff Cook in 2005, MeetMe is a popular social networking app that encourages... (read more)

Founded by siblings Catherine, Dave, and Geoff Cook in 2005, MeetMe is a popular social networking app that encourages men... (read more)

The orchestra is encouraging contestants to post on social media videos of themselves reading the holiday poem with the...

Read the article 8 Top Tips To Create An Effective Social Learning Strategy to find social learning tips, advice, and techniques for creating a successful social learning strategy that engages learners and encourages collaborative eLeaSocial Learning Strategy to find social learning tips, advice, and techniques for creating a successful social learning strategy that engages learners and encourages collaborative eLeasocial learning tips, advice, and techniques for creating a successful social learning strategy that engages learners and encourages collaborative eLeasocial learning strategy that engages learners and encourages collaborative eLearning.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Such programs seem to encourage teachers to focus their work efforts on the areas of student performance that are being measured — primarily the core academic areas of mathematics, science, social studies, and reading.

Educators and parents can encourage youth to slow down, reflect, and take a step back when they read and respond to the flow of content and messages on social media.

Everyone with a stake in education is encouraged to support this campaign by sharing why they #LovePublicEducation on social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, et al.); by submitting a story that details the importance of public education, here; by adopting a resolution in support of public education in your own school district (read ours, here.)

Preventing summer slide is most effective when community organizations — including schools, public libraries, community centers, parent groups, social service agencies, and others — work together to encourage kids to read, make reading fun, and to reach families about the importance of reading over the summer.

These books not only encourage visual literacy and reading fluency, they also offer age - appropriate models for problem - solving and social development.

Organizations applying for grants will be encouraged to focus on strategies that increase parent and family engagement and student learning time; improve school safety, attendance, and discipline; address students» social, emotional, and health needs; accelerate students» acquisition of reading and mathematics knowledge and skills; and increase graduation and college enrollment rates.

FEATURES Boosts reading and listening comprehension Encourages creativity and builds confidence in social settings INCLUDES 6 Foam story cubes

I enjoyed reading some of the different ways teachers have helped encourage their students to use social media to take on or share projects that that they are doing that help others.

Common Core State Standards encourage more reading and writing in classes like science, social studies and physical education.

The essence of the social platform is that it encourages readers to set up their own virtual bookshops to share their favorite reads as well as discover, recommend and review books online.

The essence of the social platform is that it encourages readers to set up their own virtual bookshops to share their favorite reads as... [Read more...]

Kobo's innovative Reading Life is an industry - first comprehensive social eReading experience where Kobo users can earn awards simply for time spent reading and encouraging Reading Life is an industry - first comprehensive social eReading experience where Kobo users can earn awards simply for time spent reading and encouraging reading and encouraging others.

The essence of the social platform is that it encourages readers to set up their own virtual bookshops to share their favourite reads as well as discover, recommend and review books online.

This feature encourages readers to not only utilize the Readmill social reading platform, but also encourages readers to do something that publishers have found difficult: turn to their branded websites for book purchasing.

The essence of the social platform is that it encourages readers to set up their own virtual... [Read more...]

And I want to encourage reading experiences that are social and create dialogues.

Humans are naturally social beings and adding an expanded twist on the reading process might encourage more people to actually read.

It remains to be seen whether the increasing functionality of the tablets will encourage content producers to make more interactive, media - rich works, or whether reading will become relegated to «just another app» on these tablet computers, to compete for the consumers» attention with email, social networks, and games.»

The director general of the Libraries Department in the Ministry of Culture in Gaza, Mohammed al - Sharif, praised Khota Books» efforts to encourage reading, as young people too often get their information only from social media and prefer to read on a screen.

Kobo's innovative Reading Life is an industry - first comprehensive social eReading experience - Kobo users can earn awards simply for time spent reading and encouraging Reading Life is an industry - first comprehensive social eReading experience - Kobo users can earn awards simply for time spent reading and encouraging reading and encouraging others.

With top - ranked eReading applications for Apple, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows products, Kobo allows consumers to make eReading social through Facebook Timeline and Reading Life, an industry - first social experience that lets users to earn awards for time spent reading and encouraging others to jReading Life, an industry - first social experience that lets users to earn awards for time spent reading and encouraging others to jreading and encouraging others to join in.

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Kobo's innovative Reading Life is an industry - first comprehensive social eReading experience — Kobo users can earn awards simply for time spent reading and encouraging Reading Life is an industry - first comprehensive social eReading experience — Kobo users can earn awards simply for time spent reading and encouraging reading and encouraging others.

This app encourages discussion around reading, which really is embedded into our social fabric.»

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There are other factors — the Direct Market has encouraged a specific kind of culture, the Big Two push continuity over quality fairly often and emphasize reading it now now now, the way you can build a social circle out of your comic shop's patrons — but those three are the biggest, I think?

With a sharp focus on the social aspect of literature, Kobo encourages readers to recommend and discuss recent reads with other Kobo users.

Cutting - edge features to manage and encourage independent reading amongst students, featuring social media sharing.

It is officially called the Retirement Savings Contribution Credit, or Saver's Credit for short, and it is designed to encourage low - to - modest income individuals and families to save for retirement (which is great if you read about What Young People Should Know About Social Security).

Make your blog posts easy to read and visually interesting and you'll also encourage people to share your content on social media.

[11:12 a.m. Updated For a deeper look at social science research on the potential of communication and marketing to influence America's climate choices, I encourage you to read «Communication and Marketing as Climate Change Intervention Assets,» a paper pointed out by Matt Nisbet and Robert Brulle, among others working in that arena.]

Social media posts that include visuals have much higher click - through rates, as images grab the attention of users and encourage them to read more.

He encourages «everyone who reads this blog to spread the news about the Navy SEAL Foundation via all social media platforms including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc...»

In that regard, we strongly encourage any law firm or attorney marketing with social media to include in their email signatures links to their Twitter,... Read More»

A little book by Yale's Professor Michael Reisman (Law in Brief Encounters) is a helpful read to understand how many and varied are the social processes for encouraging and enforcing cooperation without resort to the state's formal processes.

While we will work mostly from the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, required reading will also include scholarship on the unique ethical and moral dilemmas of social justice lawyers, and students will be encouraged to think critically about the rules of Professional Responsibility and their application in social justice contexts.

Assisted in classrooms at the local YMCA reading «corestorybooks» that promoted vocabulary and comprehension by reading high - quality children's literature together; designed fun learning activities that let children experiment and practice with words and ideas to deepen their understanding of books; and encourage social interaction through group activities designed to develop and promote language and literacy skills.

Observed and assessed student performance and kept thorough records of progress.Implemented a variety of teaching methods such as lectures, discussions and demonstrations.Established clear objectives for all lessons, units and projects.Encouraged students to persevere with challenging tasks.Set and communicated ground rules for the classroom based on respect and personal responsibility.Identified early signs of emotional, developmental and health problems in students and followed up with the teacher.Tutored children individually and in small groups to help them with difficult subjects.Taught after - school and summer enrichment programs.Established positive relationships with students, parents, fellow teachers and school administrators.Mentored and counseled students with adjustment and academic problems.Delegated tasks to teacher assistants and volunteers.Took appropriate disciplinary measures when students misbehaved.Improved students» reading levels through guided reading groups and whole group instruction.Used children's literature to teach and reinforce reading, writing, grammar and phonics.Enhanced reading skills through the use of children's literature, reader's theater and story time.Differentiated instruction according to student ability and skill level.Taught students to exercise problem solving methodology and techniques during tests.Taught students in various stages of cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional development.Encouraged students to explore issues in their lives and in the world around them.Employed a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction textual materials to encourage students to read independently.

Daniel Willingham just shared a new report on various aspects of Social Emotional Learning (I'd encourage you to read his comments).