Sentences with phrase «from reading for pleasure»

The study of 165 current pupils, adults and teachers, also found that teenagers approach reading exam texts very differently from reading for pleasure.

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The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

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That said, I've rounded up some of my favourite links from the web — recipes, articles and kitchen inspiration — for your reading pleasure...

SMALL SENSATION Sirs: I have been reading your magazine for about six years and have derived much pleasure from it.

In the build up to midday I'll bring you the best from the web for your reading pleasure.

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We've collected some bits and bytes of reviews from The Imitation Game, Rosewater and Wild for your reading pleasure, all premieres getting their first looks and first reviews.

I read for pleasure, to learn things I want to know, to hear news from faraway places, and to keep my mind occupied when I travel.

Following the huge success of the inaugural year, which saw 36 teachers and 1080 children from 27 schools take part in the project, Professor Teresa Cremin will launch this year's project with a keynote speech entitled «Reading for Pleasure — a National and International Perspective.»

Stay tuned: Our next Teacher infographic will take a look at what children want from the books they read for pleasure.

Like reading for pleasure, an enjoyment of writing has been linked to higher student achievement, but new data from the UK show children and young people's enjoyment of writing is declining.

The trial has not provided any evidence that the TextNow Transition Programme improved reading comprehension or attitudes towards reading for pleasure over the transition from primary to secondary school.

• The percentage of students who said they read for pleasure dropped from 69 % in 2000, to 64 % in 2009.

The NAEP results include a wealth of data apart from subject scores, including information on how often students read for pleasure.

Excellent writing, i did read it two times so sorry for this, i have passed it on to my associates, so with a bit of luck they should get pleasure from it as well.

That said, I found the Nexus 10's display a pleasure to use for everything — from reading the text describing my app, to viewing my pictures, to reading e-books and Web pages.

The results of the professors» findings have led to an awe - inspiring but earth - shattering conclusion: school - based reading instruction should focus even more on self - selected texts for pleasure reading, and less on rote instruction from corporate lessons.

Following are the best epub readers for Windows devices so that you can enjoy the pleasure of reading even from your laptop, desktop or a better convertible device.

Willnot by James Sallis You may find the latest crime novel from Sallis, author of Drive, to be a slow read, but for a very good reason: You'll want to slow down for the sheer pleasure of his artfully crafted prose.

Love the iPad app by Richard Mason for his book History of a Pleasure Seeker, which allows seemless switching from the text to the audio (read by Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey fame), plus supplemental photo, history, music content.

Despite having an office full of gadgets, I still go back to my Kindle for my pleasure reading, so I eagerly await more news from Amazon.

FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE: To see letters written by notable authors, or to see excerpts from their works, please click on About the Author, Buy Dangerous Times, or Contact.

Or do you mean the ones I actually thought I might read again — the ones that tripled the weight of all the things I moved from apartment to apartment, coast to coast and back over the years before I finally stopped even opening the boxes again since I didn't have nearly enough bookshelf space for two decade of pleasure reading?

It's one thing to change the way we read from words on paper to words on an electronic e-Ink display that emulates paper, but is it really likely that the activity, processes, pleasures and utility of reading are going to transformed from words to words and video and audio for a critical mass of readers?

I read a lot professionally, so when I read for pleasure, I want to detach from work or other external responsibilities (I should note that as a social scientist and a critic I'm never fully detached from what I do for work or professionally, but there's still a difference in intent that is important when it comes to reading).

And I say only «somewhat sadly» because the inability to properly review, aside from causing some guilt, has also allowed me to read for pleasure and nothing else and remind me of the kind of reader I once was: voracious, relaxed, in the moment.

This calls for a third - party copyeditor, someone who not only knows all those rules but is willing to grind through the story, reading not for pleasure, but with a pen poised to drip blood over every little slip - up, from that first quotation mark to the final period.

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The KND Kindle Chronicles Interview: From Homer to Homer: Unnatural Acts, Words Like Loaded Pistols, and Rewiring Our Brains for the Pleasures of Reading — Len Edgerly Interviews Marshall Poe of New Books Network July 10, 2012 By LEN EDGERLY, Contributing Editor If you are like me and most other people, you seldom read a -LSB-...]

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Overall, her paintings read as fragments from a daydream and portray a longing for lost fantasy and abundant pleasure.

And for your reading pleasure, go here for many other climate / science headlines of interest from the past week, including the usual climate - doomsday stuff...

My new year's resolution was to make more time to read for pleasure, principally to ensure I was switching off from work in the evenings and to get away from constantly looking at screens.

For those who prefer their pleasure mixed with a little law, let me tell you that there's a big copyright controversy surrounding this film, having to do with the fact that certain copyrights in the Hanshaw songs still exist, though most do not, and the holders exacted stringent terms from Paley, all of which you can read about here and here.

I get great pleasure from reading a text where, for example, the author carefully uses the «m» dash rather than parentheses or the semi-colon rather than the comma or colon.

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