Sentences with phrase «including author readings»

There are also extensive public programs including author readings, lectures, discussion panels and performances.

Our Spring Symposium, Until Recently I Only Had A Voice, included author readings, audience - led discussion and panel critique, plus the launch of Adham Faramawy's app, «Hi!

Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to announce the book launch, including author reading and book signing, of Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power, by Susan E. Cahan, published by Duke University Press.

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Borg is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling «The Heart of Christianity», «Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time», «Reading the Bible Again for the First Time», and the novel «Putting Away Childish Things.»

I had read much of Borges's work, including many relatively unknown essays and reviews, as I prepared to write a dissertation on his «Libros y autores extranjeros» («Foreign Books and Authors»), a biweekly column he published from 1936 - 39 in the Buenos Aires magazine El Hogar.

The author's Web site includes some additional resources and information, including a list of required reading for Liberty students.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

International experts in other disciplines joined them including novelist Laura Esquivel, author of the hugely popular novel Like Water for Chocolate; Kirmen Uribe, one of the most widely read and translated Basque language authors; Cristina Franchini, an expert on International Law; Matthew Goldfarb, organic farmer, rural sociologist and expert in sustainable production; and María Fernanda di Giacobbe, winner of the 2016 Basque Culinary World Prize.

That was one of the topics discussed at a workshop in Vancouver, B.C., on love put on by Carrie Jenkins, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia, that featured many wonderful speakers besides Jenkins, whose thought - provoking book, What Love Is And What It Could Be, comes out in a few weeks, including Marina Adshade, UBC professor of economics, author of of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and entertaining TEDx speaker; and Mandy Len Catron, who teaches writing at UBC and whose Modern Love essay on how to make anyone fall in love with you was one of the most - read Modern Loves, and that lead her to write a book on love essays that comes out in 2017.

He is an author of several books including Feeding Baby Green and appears frequently in the media including such venues as the The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TODAY Show, Good Morning America, the Dr. Oz... Read more >>

We've been sent a lot of new children's books recently which we've been reading over and over, including the new book from Gruffalo author Julia...

I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

He's also the author of a new book, Born Round, in which he chronicles his deeply troubled past when it comes to food, including a history of chronic overeating and... [Continue reading]

The vigil included a song, and several student authored poems read aloud by their teachers

For the vast majority of papers in the scientific literature as a whole (if not in Science) the audience is quite small and tightly focussed: Indeed, many are read from start to finish by no more than 10 people — that's including the authors» colleagues and the referees.

The authors might usefully have included one of the newer authoring tools instead, but then people might not need to read the book.

In 2012, news media were abuzz with a new finding from PNAS: Authors based in Israel had found evidence that our brains can unconsciously process more than we thought — including basic math and reading.

I just read your post on the top fitness blogs.First of all, I would like to thank the author for sharing such a comprehensive fitness blog with us.I have read several health blog posts and last week i found the website healthymomsmagazine.net / The website includes several healthy tips especially for working moms on different topics including pregnancy, children, health, safety, food, and parenting etc..

The author Cascia is very talented and she includes all the useful points in a very right way that makes the posts interesting to read right from start to end.

There's really no nutritional need for protein powders,» explains performance nutritionist Adam Kelinson, author of The Athlete's Plate: Read Food for High Performance and nutritional consultant for athletes and celebrities, including Prince, Hillary Swank, and Mariska Hargitay.

He is the author of more than 20 books including The Coconut Oil Miracle, The New Arthritis Cure, and Stop... Read more

I recently read a blog where the author, a specialist in nutrition and particularly Ayurvedic diet, told a story about a woman who had a magnesium deficiency despite including large amounts of brown rice in her diet.

Every chapter in the new edition is so chock full of new information, I didn't have space to include all the reasons you'd want to read it in the Authors Note, so I'm including more here:

He thereby goes to the library to research authors who have written about these sins, and gives his partner a reading list that includes Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Chaucer, and Milton.

I admit I've never seen or read a play from the famed Russian author, but it has always been my understanding they've included deep thoughts, heavy themes and everything done in subtext.

EXTRAS: The Blu - ray releases includes an interactive study guide, a featurette on adapting the book for the screen, highlights from the original script reading, footage from the press conference, an interview with author Lois Lowry and a deleted scene.

Along with the movie, the disc includes A Story from the Cast and Crew (featuring the author, Cornelia Funke) and Eliza Reads to Us (with Eliza Bennett, who played Meggie Folchart).

It is based on beloved Canadian author Mordecai Richler's award - winning last novel; it is produced by Robert Lantos; and it has a cast worth bragging about including Paul Giamatti (who scored... Continue reading →

This year, between 31 October — 4 November authors including Cressida Cowell, Nick Butterworth and Jon Mayhew will read stories, sign books and run interactive workshops to help ignite a love of reading in children.

Create a reading list that addresses gaps and deficiencies in representation by including new authors.

10 starter - style wordsearches covering 10 themes including: English Aims Speaking Reading Writing Vocabulary Writing 2 Handwriting Written Information Punctuation Famous Authors Includes space for students to explain the keywords and suggested extension activities.

These voicemails have caught the attention of some famous writers and celebrities, including The Fault in Our Stars author John Green, who mentioned the project on his Facebook page, and Mitch Albom, who tweeted about an Ishmael caller who read aloud his book Tuesdays With Morrie during car rides with her peevish father.

Language arts teachers are including more books by minority authors in reading assignments.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency prreading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency prReading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

These Book Projects with Grading Rubrics include: - Introduction - student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama - act it out - letter to the author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key places - make a web - create a new page - story sequence - advertise - story flip book - character map - book award - new ending - story chart - story map - postcard - story flag - letter to the author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline - story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are GREAT for reading workshops.

*** Includes 70 original passages, comprehension questions, and answer keys *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 13 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, main idea and details, realism and fantasy, vocabulary, sequence, cause and effect, author's purpose, plot, theme, drawing conclusions, fact and opinion, and compare and contrast.

Booknet would offer 24 - hour - a-day programming, including such features as author interviews, readings, news and reviews, teaching segments, and perhaps book - based films.

The year culminated in two special events: an author event with Piers Torday and William Grill for 600 children at The Everyman Theatre; and a Sharing Day when teachers presented the impact of the programme on their pupils, including Changes in Personal Practice and Changing a School Reading Culture.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Other prizes include author - led writing workshops and Premier League trophy school visits, as well as winning poems being read aloud by football stars.

Included: Jim Trelease, author of The Read - Aloud Handbook, talks to Education World about the value of reading aloud.

GUYS READ: Helping Boys Become Better Readers, Better Students, Better Guys Jon Scieszka is author of many popular childrens» books including The Stinky Cheese Man and Math Curse.

Included: Education World talks with Jim Trelease, author of The Read - Aloud Handbook.

He is the author of nine books including The Myth of the Common School (published also in Italian and Spanish), Educational Freedom in Eastern... Read more

The student will read a thoughtful and informative piece of writing by Henry David Thoreau on the subject of «Wild Apples», in which various themes are addressed, including history, myth, literature, philosophy and first - hand observations and reflections by the author.

There are various opportunities to meet KS2 National Curriculum requirements, including study of a significant author, reading techniques such as prediction, drawing inferences, clarification and summary, and drama and writing opportunities, including poetry performance, descriptive writing, persuasive writing, letter writing, newspaper reports, poetry and play scripts.

The parent group also sponsors a family reading night, which includes a book swap and a visit from a local author.

The authors» and illustrators» letter continued, «We are alarmed at the negative impact of excessive school testing mandates, including your administration's own initiatives, on children's love of reading and literature.

Her honors include being Nationally Board Certified in Reading / Language Arts for the Early and Middle Grades, Membership Director for the Collegiate Peaks Council of the International Reading Association, member of the Long - Range Strategic Planning Committee for the Colorado Council of the International Reading Association, and an author of four study guides and a children's book.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/ Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able To Do Author: Louisa Moats The American Federation of Teachers commissioned this valuable resource which includes issues such as Preventing Reading Failure: A Top Priority for Education, Taking Stock of Teacher Preparation in Reading, Toward a Curriculum for Teacher Preparation, Where we need to go.