Sentences with phrase «many fiction and nonfiction»

Opinions vary on what's the best brain - boosting reading material, with suggestions ranging from developing a daily newspaper habit to picking up a variety of fiction and nonfiction, but everyone seems to agree that quantity is important.

The judges curate and select the best new hardcover titles for members from a broad range of genres and offer a mix of both fiction and nonfiction titles, sure to impress even the pickiest and hard to shop for Moms.

Be they finance not finance fiction and nonfiction, what really stayed with you?

Valerie Dansereau has experience writing both fiction and nonfiction.

But, I asked, is there a difference between fiction and nonfiction?

The Songlines is by turns fiction and nonfiction, hilarious and profound.

The boundary between fiction and nonfiction, and literature and non-literature, is becoming shaky and plays an ever smaller role in our imaginations.

Well, your problem is that comparing fiction and nonfiction books... it just won't cut it.

Both fiction and nonfiction books provide us with an opportunity to experience a story and another person's life through a protagonist's eyes.

I am also an avid learner of the Spanish language, reading (fiction and nonfiction), learning more about women's health, my cactus / succulent garden, and using essential oils.

Skill - building Hidden Picture scenes help them learn through play, and engaging fiction and nonfiction stories encourage a lifetime love of reading.

She can read fiction and nonfiction books about chimps, including stories about researchers like Jane Goodall.

He was also an accomplished author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Clarke, who suffered from post-polio syndrome and reportedly had trouble breathing before his death on March 18, wrote scores of books, both fiction and nonfiction, and won numerous awards.

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All genres, fiction and nonfiction, are supported on their platform and reach millions of readers worldwide.

On the site, writers of fiction and nonfiction are welcome to write, publish, and sell ebooks without constraint.

The lovely, meandering synthesis of fiction and nonfiction techniques she achieved in that movie has advanced here to new levels of artistic refinement, not least because her formal explorations have been tethered to a uniquely harrowing real - life story.

«The Rider» belongs in the Badlands between fiction and nonfiction, and Zhao knows her way around.

At a lunch Wednesday in Manhattan, this year's Heterodox Award, given to films that provocatively expand the blurry line between fiction and nonfiction, was presented to Sean Baker's The Florida Project and the Legacy Award was given to Leon Gast for his classic film, When We Were Kings.

There's a palpable fit between progressive festivals and their progressive cinema, and, inversely, it's also noticeable when a festival that separates fiction and nonfiction selects a film that's an in - betweener: at LAFF, Kevin Jerome Everson's The Island of St. Matthews only serves to underline the retrograde nature of such a programming structure.

The nominees for this year's Heterodox Award (recognizing work that blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction) as well as this year's Legacy Award recipient will be announced in the coming weeks.

The film that left Sundance shell - shocked blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction, past and present, victim and hero.

-- In late June, the call for submissions will open for the second #HometownHeroes rally with The Duplass Brothers, which expands this year to include both fiction and nonfiction feature films.

Ever since John Cassavetes started directing movies, indie films have wrestled with the tension between fiction and nonfiction.

Christopher McNabb is a filmmaker, editor, and writer dedicated to the art of both fiction and nonfiction storytelling.

Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine pivots on several paradoxes: of acting, which involves self - expression via self - effacement; of media, which parasitically feeds on people, offering audiences catharsis while enslaving them with feelings of inferiority; and of the relationship between fiction and nonfiction, which is characterized by an illusion of distinguishability that affirms the greater illusion of the existence of objectivity.

Others are excerpted from speeches, Supreme Court decisions, and books — both fiction and nonfiction — with social or political relevance.

The development of a «taste» for literature — fiction and nonfiction alike — is hardly something we're good at teaching, Not to mention the dilemma about how to teach literacy of the new media that will constitute the bulk of the next generation's «reading.»

This year we visited with authors of fiction and nonfiction, picture books and novels, from places near and far.

The classroom is also provisioned with maps, costumes, photographs, artifacts, and fiction and nonfiction literature.

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

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.

Does your library or classroom collection include a mix of fiction and nonfiction titles?

Each of the 29 fiction and nonfiction passages focus on a different word family.

Whether it's beginning readers, juniors or older teens, having a good mix of fiction and nonfiction books on offer will ensure there's plenty for students to choose from.

This gives you a total of 32 fiction and nonfiction passages in this resource.

In English and language arts, you'd see more of a focus on nonfiction «a slight shift in the balance between fiction and nonfiction, favoring a greater emphasis on nonfiction since this is what people are typically reading in careers and so forth.

Distinguishes between fiction and nonfiction books, and explains how a book is organized, from the title page, table of contents, to the index and bibliography.

Examine appropriate reference and fiction and nonfiction resources, such as How Things Work by David Macaulay and The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher, in order to develop a list of basic tools and simple machines and answer such research questions as: What are some tools and devices that have been invented to make life easier?

Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.

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 texts.

The standards call for students in kindergarten through grade five to read an equal amount of fiction and nonfiction.

Mixing high - quality fiction and nonfiction, the text sets address topics such as marine animals, space, and shadows and light.

The standards provide «exemplars» — here's a link (PDF) to 11th grade fiction and nonfiction titles — but only require five readings: the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's second inaugural address, the Bill of Rights, and one play by Shakespeare.

Granta does a really nice job of focusing on one country and finding young fiction and nonfiction writers from there and dedicating an entire issue to them.

Pioneer Valley Books offers a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books and other resources for Reading Recovery, primary classroom, and literacy teachers at affordable prices.

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.

It should include both fiction and nonfiction books that have different reading levels.

In kindergarten through third grade, the primary goal is to teach all students to read fluently and to comprehend a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections that relate to all areas of the curriculum.