Sentences with phrase «kids than reading a book»

And it's just easier for some kids than reading a book.

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When I was a little kid, I spent more than a few nights under the covers with a flashlight reading books like Enders Game and Little House on The Prairie.

Summer is when you march yourself down to the local library, come out with more books than you can carry, and then beat the pants off all the other kids enrolled in the summer reading program by downing every Ramona book within a 50 mile radius like so many shots of vodka.

Its not often I read one of your comments Budd and nod my head in agreement but on this I have to say yu are 100 % on the money Afobe will MAYBE a to notch plyer one day but right now we didthe right thing letting him go, the only thing that I will say is that we have always let players go when the world asked why and on hindsight have been proven right, HOWEVER why have we had players like Diaby on the books when it was clear he would never ever be fit enough to fulfil his potential and why on earth have we currently got Sanogoals or Wellbeck on our books whe its obvious to all and their mothers that neither of these kids will ever be anything other than average squad players at best.

Well i have 3 kids 6 yrs 2 yrs and 1 yrs and i just went over to barnes and nobles or borders or even the library and get some books with pictures to read to them i think that makes it alot more easier for them to understand cause my kids got a hang of it or show them some friends that preggo or preggo ladies in the store or with babies and talk to them cause tots are alot smarter than you think

Kids who are first learning to read get more information from listening to books read aloud than from reading them independently.

It's easier to have a schedule and clean the house, teach the kids, cook three meals, blog, work outside, and read a book all in one day than to only get one thing done and have everything else looming over me.

In some classes, kids listen to teachers talk about reading far more than they actually read themselves, while in other classes, independent reading is kept sacred and kids have ample time to explore books of their own choosing.

-- should we be worried about how many books kids are reading these days?According to a biannual reading poll from Scholastic, the answer is a resounding yes.As reported by the Boston Globe on February 16, Scholastic's 2014 poll of more than 2,500...

The study also found that of those kids responding, 54 % said they prefer to watch television than read a book.

«If popular books have more male central characters than unpopular books, then the books which kids actually read, and which presumably shape their understandings of gender, may be even more disproportionately male than scholars realized.»

The kids learn Biology, they go on a field trip, they write poems about their environment and what they're learning rather than just [reading a book that doesn't relate to their learning or individual context].

«When I first came to New York, every kid was given the same book to read, whether they could read it or not, rather than putting something in their hands they could read,» Snowball said.

An abelist perspective asserts that it is preferable for a child to read print rather than Braille, walk rather than use a wheelchair, spell independently rather than use a spell - checker, read written text rather than listen to a book on tape, and be friends with nondisabled kids rather than with other disabled kids.

Tangible libraries in small towns have more functions than just lending books, but they also provide parents with an easy way to get their kids out of the home and discovering the love of reading.

The importance of increasing access to books in schools was highlighted in the most recent Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report which found that children ages 6 — 17 from lower - income households are more likely to read books for fun in school and far less likely to read books outside of school than their higher - income peers.

especially since I can only «read» audio - there's nothing worse than having an audio book that suddenly becomes a sex-fest while your kids or grandkids are wandering in and out.

In Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want — and Why We Should Let Them, authors Jeffrey D. Wilhelm (Boise State University) and Michael W. Smith (Temple University), explain that there has to be more to books for young people than just the typical academic requirements.

A post by Shelf Awareness shared the news that the Kids» Right to Read Project has investigated more incidences of censorship and book banning in 2013 than in 2012, and that the number of cases this year was three times higher than average.

Kids say that ebooks are better than print books when they do not want their friends to know what they are reading, and when they are out and about / traveling.

I'm from Asia pacific and here i see kids are getting totally different i know one of my cousin's daughter who like to read comics in iPhone than a real printed book, and i also see the primary schools getting virtual with electronic resource centers, where kids can access computers and all the comics and books from computer data base.

«The key to making summer reading successful for kids is to make it feel more like «homefun» rather than «homework,» and to give kids the power to choose the books they want to read.»

User behavior could mean a lot more than just usage charts — We're talking uncannily good recommendation engines, better marketing strategies, better decisions on what books to publish, getting kids to read more, and other powerful things.

The Nook Tablet offers the best interactive eReading experience on the market, with a selection of more than 2.5 million books and amazing features such as Read and Record, which lets parents record themselves reading each page of a book so their kids can experience it even when they're not around.

The new Fire 7 Kids Edition increases the default storage to 16 GB onboard and includes a year of Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited so your kids have access to more apps and shows and books than can be read in that timefrKids Edition increases the default storage to 16 GB onboard and includes a year of Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited so your kids have access to more apps and shows and books than can be read in that timefrkids have access to more apps and shows and books than can be read in that timeframe.

For now, there's no way to sort and filter by more than age or gender — if you don't want your kid to read princess books or watch Barney, there's currently no way to blacklist those, though Kindle VP Peter Larsen says that's coming.

I remain excited that my kids love reading books — in whatever form that may take:) Interestingly I think studies also show that students who take handwritten notes in class (as opposed to typing notes on their computer) also retain more as they have to condense the information when writing — when typing the focus is more on transcribing than distilling the information being heard.

There is a statistic that shows when children grow up in a home with books they do better in school overall than kids without books in the home, even if they never read them.

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Unlike tablets, Kindle is designed just for reading, which means kids can lose themselves in a good book rather than get distracted by videos or games.

Ebook sales continue to grow and have already captured more than $ 3 billion of the book sales market — more and more kids are reading ebooks today.

Being able to carry more books in a smaller package is a real advantage for long vacations, the ability to read at night without turning the lights on is a godsend for insomniacs or when you're sharing a tent with your kids, and the premium feel that Oasis lends to the experience sets this device higher than other models.

Liz and Kate have been voracious dog books readers since childhood but Petra admits that as a kid she read more horse books than dog books.

But seriously, while they spent quite a bit more time with this than they probably should have, I'm all for anything which might get more kids to read a book.