Sentences with phrase «fiction texts about»

A non fiction text about spring differentiated three ways.

Not exact matches

Tools such as Game Maker, Flixel, RPG Maker and Twine — a tool for making interactive fiction — now let budding developers start making games by dragging objects about in a graphical interface or simply by writing text.

Through these sessions, children will explore 3 news reports about heroes; generate their own toolkits; strip a fiction text (Beowulf) back to its bare bones; create captions and draw scenes from the story; take part in drama activities and finally write news reports using a consistent style and appropriate register.

Students learn through the following tasks: - Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge through an interactive starter task; - Identifying the descriptive devices in sentences written about 19th Century characters; - Building close reading skills through a study of a fiction extract from Frankenstein - Answering exam - style questions interpreting and inferring the key meanings in the text; - Using models and templates to write extended analysis responses about the descriptive language used in the fiction extract; - Peer assessing their partners» learning attempts.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

One way to do that is to think strategically about the fiction text that you choose to read with your students.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

In 4th grade, about half the texts students read should be fiction and half should be nonfiction, the standards say.

The nonfiction article is about Hyenas from National Geographic and the fiction texts are Pinduli by Janell Cannon and Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull.

The National Literacy Trust survey of about 18,000 school children suggests youngsters are more likely to read text messages and emails than fiction.

To develop student thinking and understanding about a complex text over a period of time, whether it is poetry, fiction, or expository texts, teachers can utilize scaffolded thinking map called Peeling the Fruit.

Reading features fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, exposition, document, and procedural texts or pairs of texts, and focuses on identifying explicitly stated information, making complex inferences about themes, and comparing multiple texts on a variety of dimensions.

We linked our Literacy text to Space, studying «Tower to the Sun» by Colin Thomson and the children used their space knowledge to write some fantastic pieces of fiction about towers into space.

But digital reading has redefined presuppositions about size and, more importantly, about what format is best for what's being read: text messages, news articles, textbooks or fiction.

In the fiction world, a «novelette» is a story that is between 7,500 and 20,000 words in length (that's about 30 — 80 manuscript pages, but could be shorter or longer in printed form, depending on the variables of formatting text).

a growing misinformation about the Common Core which does lean more towards informational text, but still encourages fiction — even in high school.

This is a free short text adventure / interactive fiction that's about 15 minutes long.

Some of that was revealed in your book White Is an Image, especially in Lynne Cooke's text about Somnium (2011), where I learned that it was inspired by Johannes Kepler's science - fiction novel with the same title.

He subverts the biographical context in which the images were made in favor of multiple fictions about the subject and inquires into the medium of photography, expressed through installation, text, and sculpture.

An art review on Friday about «Fore,» at the Studio Museum in Harlem, misspelled the given name of one of the museum's artists in residence, who will present a text piece based on urban street fiction.