Sentences with phrase «makes reading fiction»

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Barack Obama claims reading fiction made him a better citizen.

You can best understand the importance of style by reading fiction and studying what makes a great story.

Over the course of two years I read 197 books on different topics ranging from business to physics, from nonfiction to fiction and made every second of my days productive.

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

Reading fiction, in other words, has made him a better, more engaged person.

I havent read the odyssey so I cant personally make a case that it was written as fiction, I'm relying on the hundreds of critical examinations of it that state it is fiction with some historical facts thrown in.

Having been raised catholic, I can tell you that there's a cycle of good stories they rotate through every 4 years, leaving out some of the beautiful goodies that would make you think you were reading some kind of bible fan fiction (for bible fan fiction, look up the apocrypha).

Perhaps most poignantly, one reader who read the book in light of the pedophilia scandals and the church's early secrecy about them says, tentatively but tellingly: «With all that is going on in the Catholic Church today, it makes you wonder if some of the fiction is actually true.»

The book is super cute, exactly the type of mystery - meets - chick lit - meets foodie fiction type of book I read when I am alone (if I'm in public, it's War and Peace or something that makes me look smart, of course).

Going to be making mini turnovers for a fiction / poetry reading; thanks for the wonderful recipe!

Don't try to make the reading time «educational», but choose a variety of classics, historical novels and contemporary fiction as it appeals to you all.

The article made me remember a Larry Niven short story I read in a collection years ago (I know you'll be shocked to find out that I grew up reading science fiction).

Well its not because of anything you've written which if anyone's looking for a good fiction book Trum's writings make a humorous read.

After reviewing over a dozen design submissions, a committee made up of senior Mars Society staff selected a poster created by Bill Wright, a freelance science fiction illustrator, as the first place... Read More

I like to hula hoop, read non fiction, discover bands, 420, and make money.

Then rather than reading the trendy, sanitized fiction his sister left behind, he decides to make up the kind of bedtime story his father (Jonathan Pryce) used to tell.

Back on the first screen, «100 Years in the Making» (10:43) considers Edgar Rice Burroughs» entry into fiction writing (with an actor reading his autobiographical writings) as well as this film's journey to be made.

Lesson includes reading a story, identifying elements of fiction, creating a project about survival, and making a PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate student comprehension.

The students eventually decided as a group to open a Chinese restaurant, and the class spent several weeks reading fiction and nonfiction books about China to help them make decisions about their restaurant's decor, ambience, and menu.

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.

Instructions for; planting peas - science link Making a secret ink message - history link Trapping a wild thing - fiction Making jam sandwich - Dt link amd T4W unit How to be king of Wild thing - English MANY opportunities to read around the genre to develop writer toolkit.

Much of our compendium of personal favorites — to read and to teach — is made up of memoir and biography, but it is also worth noting that these are the forms of nonfiction that most closely resemble fiction and therefore are most intuitive to students already.

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.

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.

Some ideas to make reading appealing to adolescents include pairing classic literature with similarly themed young adult fiction; building a classroom library that addresses the curriculum and the needs of students; providing time for sustained silent reading; start book clubs; and using Venn diagrams, dinner party, and readers» theater techniques to explore issues in literature.

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.

These shifts include teaching less fiction, emphasizing the kind of «close» reading favored in postmodern literary criticism, making heavy use of drawings to teach math concepts, and so on.

That makes for good reading, if you're into fiction.

I got my Kindle on the case and imported a selection, thinking flash fiction would make the perfect speedy bedtime reading for people like me who always end up going to bed much later than they should do.

I was the collaborator on the national bestseller The Way of the SEAL (Reader's Digest Books, 2013) among other successful titles, and I'm honored to say that since 1999 I've helped over a hundred books across fiction and nonfiction categories make their way to the reading public one way or another.

I noted that you used third person in the query, Pamela, which for me made the story (almost) sound like fiction; and also that nowhere was the word «memoir» used in the query (unless I missed it), so am wondering how this crucial information was relayed to the acquisitions editor who read it.

But it's a fun book, to be sure, and would make great Halloween reading for those who are bigger fans of conspiracy theories, myths, legends and world history than of horror fiction.

I'm not sure I'll make it out alive if I admit that I a) don't know the names of the members of boy - band One Direction, b) saw a picture of the band and didn't realize they were all boys, and c) don't understand what is driving fan fiction authors to write volume after volume of fan fiction surrounding the pop... [Read more...]

The latest to succumb: Karen Essex, a historical fiction author who made a name for herself telling the story of the Egyptian Queen in Kleopatra (read Essex's behind the book story about Kleopatra) and had a bestseller in 2008 with Stealing Athena.

Sharing my fiction made me shake, if I tried to read it out loud.

The fiction e-publishing industry is still in its relative infancy as regards persuading a whole new potential market to switch from paper, or at least to get over the hurdle of reading on a screen, so a low price point makes sense.

On the one hand treating self - publishing as unprofessional and somehow not quite acceptable, like a bastard child, as science fiction was for decades, yet at the same time reading many self - published ebooks looking for the next bit hit they can make a killing on.

Once Humans (Daimones Trilogy) by Massimo Marino Posted in Science Fiction & Fantasy by editor — December 30, 2013 Amazon, $ 4.50, 314 pages The second in the Daimones Trilogy from Massimo Marino, does a great job of clueing in the reader about the first book with a detailed prologue, making the reading of the first volume not necessary.

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Between now and June 1, it falls to the reading fans of general and young adult fiction to read the excerpts and make the difficult choice of promoting the next popular novel.

Vertical publishes some of the most interesting manga available in English, but they have not had a digital program — until now: They recently announced that they will make three series available as e-books: The astronaut - school story Twin Spica, the science fiction story 7 Billion Needles (based on Hal Clement's novel... [Read more...]

Best known for her work on the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (read our interview with her on the books here), she's now making her second foray into adult fiction after The Last Summer (of You and Me), your basic first - novel narrative of love and friendship.

I think all fiction is a patchwork of things you've made up, things you've borrowed or heard or read somewhere, and things you've translated from life.

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Selena likes to make it as easy to read her books as possible, which is why they're in ebook, paperback, and audio formats, in four languages, on the Radish Fiction app, online, on bookstore shelves, and at your local library.

And because so much of her method is based on the science of how we read and engage with story, you'll learn techniques that will also make your fiction or nonfiction writing stronger.

If, let's say, you're trying to push a series of books — so a fiction series (or even non-fiction) if it's crucial that the reader read all the books in the series for it to make sense, why would you promote book four of a series?

MJB: With fiction, it's important to paint vivid pictures that will make people forget they are reading words.

Sure, editors spend all their time reading and making decisions about what's the next hot thing in fiction.