Sentences with phrase «fiction texts in»

He specifically looks at the impact the standards have had on the emphasis of non-fiction vs. fiction texts in reading, and on enrollment in advanced courses in mathematics.

These resources give students a strong foundation of knowledge of features of fiction texts in the 19th Century, using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as the predominant example.

Not exact matches

You might wasnt to read more religious texts (do you think they are all true) and some high quality science fiction in which new religious ideology is often invented.

The texts in question provide a fascinating window into their cultures, and to dismiss them, (as if «fiction» is «invalid» anyway?)

To quote Kenyan feminist theologian Musimbi Kanyoro, «Those cultures which are far removed from biblical culture risk reading the Bible as fiction,» Conversely, societies that identify with the biblical world feel at home in the text.

Anyone who is facinated by his work, or Tolkien's should look into the writings of another one of the Inklings, Charles Williams, who wrote religious texts, poetry, and fiction, including the novels WAR IN HEAVEN, ALL HALLOW»S EVE, and MANY DIMENSIONS.

If your child is not interested in facts and non-fiction, there are plenty of fiction books based in particular historic settings which (in my experience) give a better understanding of history than many text - books.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

«People always wanted storytelling games,» says Emily Short, an award - winning writer of interactive fiction — text - based adventures where the player has to type in commands at an on - screen prompt.

Cory Doctorow, a writer and intellectual property activist, has released the text of his first science - fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, under a new license that goes by the somewhat awkward name «Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike.»

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.

At no point does anyone in the film even vaguely resemble an actual 21st - century teenager; when these kids text each other, it comes across like science fiction.

Similarities in the likes of 500 Days of Summer (2009) are highly apparent while techniques and homages are found in the likes of Goodfellas (1990) and Pulp Fiction (1994) as acknowledged nods to the inspiring 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.

Help students explore texts by authors they value in both fiction and nonfiction.

2 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of synthesis (writing a summary of differences) Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources use modern and 19th century non fiction texts on prisons and tattoos to guide students in responding to the synthesis task on the new specification language paper.

These resources give students a strong foundation of knowledge of features of fiction and non-fiction texts in the 19th Century, using a range of visual and varied resources.

(Theme of education) The aim is for students to gain experience in handling extracts from 19th century literature but also draw comparisons to modern non fiction texts.

The following texts are explored and included in this bundle: - Martin Luther King I have a dream speech - Rudolf Holsse - concentration camp German perspective - Anne Frank's diary - Teenage lottery winner article Differentiation by colour: purple = low ability blue = middle ability yellow = high ability Resources provide opportunities to: - analyse language and perspective - compare non fiction texts - synthesise information - create non fiction texts - plan effective speeches using the 6 part structure - debate - speaking and listening

9 fully differentiated lessons that help students develop skills for analysing and comparing non fiction and literary non-fiction texts in preparation for 9 - 1 GCSE.

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.

Students were then exposed to a unique article and also unique knowledge, in order to unlock the synergies of the nonfiction and the fiction text.

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.

And of course a broad and deep base of knowledge doesn't just assist students in reading nonfiction texts: it makes successful readers of fiction too, just as the knowledge that students derive from reading isn't exclusively from nonfiction.

In order to fully comprehend reading materials, students need to understand the cause - and - effect relationships that appear in a variety of fiction and nonfiction textIn order to fully comprehend reading materials, students need to understand the cause - and - effect relationships that appear in a variety of fiction and nonfiction textin a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts.

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

Will highlight students» areas of strength and weaknesses in key reading areas including: giving / explaining meanings of words in context, retrieving and recording information / identifying key details from fiction and non-fiction, summarising main ideas from one or more paragraphs, making inferences from the text / explaining and justifying inferences with evidence from the text, identifying / explaining how information / narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as a whole, and identifying / explaining how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases.

A comprehensive unit using a variety of Science Fiction (short) stories, focusing on reading for meaning and locating information in a text.

We'll use Facing History's approach for teaching literary texts to middle and high school students, which weaves in rich primary sources and historical background for teaching fiction and memoir.

They set a goal that all students would be proficient in this test's subskill of finding the main idea for both fiction and nonfiction texts.

Aside from the fact that she believes there is relevance and value in teaching fiction to students, even when they may not be required to deal with those sort of texts frequently in their adult lives, the largest problem everyone faces in her school, Lovdahl says, is the lack of necessary resources to effect this transformation.

For a lesson plan designed to help teach students improve their reading comprehension, for example, you might state that at the end of the lesson, students should be able to read and understand figurative language, plot, climax, and other fiction characteristics, as well as the elements of nonfiction, and display the ability to find specific information in the text.

This is an historical fiction text that shares the daily life of one family in Plimoth Plantation.

Similarly, teachers can begin to use more informational text in guided and shared reading, which traditionally has involved mostly narrative fiction.

CSI Chapters Add - On Complete Package gives you access to the full range of text types represented in the series, including financial literacy, graphic nonfiction, biography, poetry, science fiction, and more!

CSI Chapters Complete Package gives you access to the full range of text types represented in the series, including financial literacy, graphic nonfiction, biography, poetry, science fiction, and more!

Students who are the «least diversified readers» (reading only one type of text with frequency) have the lowest reading literacy achievement, while students who are «diversified readers in long and complex texts» (who frequently read fiction and nonfiction books in addition to magazine and newspaper articles) have the highest reading literacy achievement.

These upper elementary school learners immerse themselves in within - reach fiction books and expository nonfiction as they work on vocabulary development, envisionment, ascertaining main ideas, recognizing text infrastructure, and thinking critically.

For things that are more subject - specific, such as the close reading of texts and the balance of fiction and nonfiction, I included those only in the examples for particular critical attributions.

Each set includes five texts representing rhyming and repetitive fiction, narrative and informational titles, a teacher toolkit with simple daily lesson plans and parent engagement picture cards with vocabulary in English and Spanish and an 18» x 24» big idea poster.

It says in English literature, students will have to «study whole texts in detail, covering a range of literature including Shakespeare, 19th Century novels, Romantic poetry and other high - quality fiction and drama».

The tendency to want to switch fonts, particularly in fiction, seems to me to make a book look pretty amateurish, and I've seen self - published examples where the author used 2, 3 or more typefaces to indicate different kinds of text.

As the author of five fantasy novels, all of which are currently sold on Amazon, I am not without experience in the area of text editing when it comes to finalizing one's fiction book for publication in one form or another.

Particularly in genre fiction you'll see patterns such as distressed text on crime fiction, or pastel images on chick - lit, or certain colour schemes.

Something else to notice: both had to use dropshadows to make the text stand out — something it's usually better to avoid (in other genres) but since dystopian fiction covers can be a little aggressive, it works here.

She, like her character Meg, turned into a workaday writer, producing three mystery novels: Dead Clever, In Your Face, and Seaside (all three links go to the full text at Google), featuring the sassy sleuth, Lily Pascale, an English professor who just happens to specialize in horror and crime fiction as well as creative writinIn Your Face, and Seaside (all three links go to the full text at Google), featuring the sassy sleuth, Lily Pascale, an English professor who just happens to specialize in horror and crime fiction as well as creative writinin horror and crime fiction as well as creative writing.

My first collection of stories, Faith, consisted of fourteen stories that fell within the 3500 - 6000 word length and, at least structurally, obeyed most of the conventions the fiction writing texts of the time recommended, as each narrative hinges upon a protagonist in a vividly rendered place who faces a conflict and makes a discovery.

Another contemporary short - short story that made a successful leap from text to screen is Katharine Weber's «Sleeping» The story was originally published in Vestal Review and later republished in James Thomas and Robert Shapard's Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories.

They are for the most part perfectly amiable in contemplation of this putative reader, whom I imagine is reading a flash fiction while texting a friend with one hand, playing Angry Birds with the other, and filming her breakfast behind Google Glass.