It was such a beautiful piece of prose, and I thought it would be wasted if it were amongst
all of this academic text.
Passages provide an opportunity to learn words in the context
of academic text and support knowledge - building in history and social studies content.
To address this goal, the schoolwide approach is designed to meet the needs of all students by providing them with instruction specifically designed to help them comprehend the complex vocabulary and content
of academic text and to increase their motivation to read.
The updated, expanded and revised second edition of the Teaching Reading Sourcebook, like the first, combines the best features
of an academic text and a practical hands on - teacher's guide.
Currently acting as a senior research fellow at Indiana's prestigious Kinsey Institute, she's also published a slew
of academic texts and held a handful of popular, engaging TED talks.
Currently acting as a senior research fellow at Indiana's prestigious Kinsey Institute, she's also published a slew
of academic texts and held a handful of engaging (and well - viewed) TED talks.
This may become especially important for the renting
of academic texts, which can be needed for an entire semester, whereas a user can opt to rent a novel for as little as five days.
The selection, approval, and adoption
of academic texts can be a lengthy and carefully vetted process, especially in the public school sector where variables such as the appropriate nature of the content and budget come into play.
Not exact matches
As Lookout and Citizen Lab, an
academic team in Toronto, reported in blog posts, the Pegasus discovery came after a human rights activist forwarded a screenshot
of a suspicious link he had received via
text message.
Arguing in a vacuum over what Jesus would do in 2012 using a 2000 - year - old
text is an
academic waste
of time and an outrage to those who are actually sick and dying right now, even if it is not completely irrelevant.
The bulk
of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection
of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors
of these
texts do not have a conception
of writing as an art, or
of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind
of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.
All religions provide answers, but if you go back and reread the
texts of any religion, they don't make sense in this day and age, but science, and
academic study has shown much
of it to be wrong.
Granted the
academic value
of such
texts, why are so many students bored with them?
This is a remarkably daring
text, the sort
of book many
academics avoid like the plague: a book aimed at a wide reading public, written with the hope that it might actually change the lives
of some
of its readers.
At the
academic level form criticism is the single most important development in the history
of the discussion
of our problem, for it provides what must be regarded as the only satisfactory understanding
of the nature
of the synoptic gospel material — satisfactory, that is, from the viewpoint
of being able to explain the phenomena demonstrably present in the
texts themselves.
The
academic guild trains pastors to stand in judgment
of the
texts.
It is not intended to be a dense
text of academic theory.
He won the Philip Leverhulme prize for Philosophy and Ethics in 2005 and the Choice (American Library Association) Outstanding
Academic Text Award for Understanding Philosophy
of Science.
Debates about the psychology
of memory are normally the stuff
of arid
academic texts.
Review: Chemistry and the construction
of life — A new
academic year always finds students searching for the right
texts to make the most
of their limited budgets.
Nearly 43 percent
of high school students
of driving age who were surveyed in 2011 reported
texting while driving at least once in the past 30 days, according to a study to be presented Saturday, May 4, at the Pediatric
Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC.
Text mining
of more than 10 million
academic papers by Luke Holman, Devi Stuart - Fox and Cindy Hauser identifies those fields
of science that will retain a highly imbalanced gender ratio for many years to come.
See the relevent part
of a
text such as «An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, 2nd edition, K.N. Liou,
Academic press» or any other
text book on the subject.
Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet and University
of Gothenburg in Sweden recently generated the software called Green Listed to facilitate the use
of CRISPR - Cas9, making information
texts and films available for free non-profit and
academic use.
Imagine that there are two types
of news: one that is emotional («your house just burned down») and another
academic one («memorise this
text after a nap»).
Note that the former is an
academic work — fascinating, but small
text, lost
of citations, and very detailed.
Story: A young man in 1980s England pursues
academic glory only to discover that knowledge can be fickle and life comes full
of endless complications that can not be researched in
text books.
Its tractability is astonishing — protean, not too much to say magical; in describing his first film experience as a visit to «the kingdom
of shadows,» Maxim Gorky brushes up against the ineffable sublimity
of a medium that mimics the eye, stimulates the ear, and has as one
of the key elements
of its
academic study a concept that suggests the moment a viewer finds himself «sutured» into the
text.
Beyond the language
of the middle - school or high - school
text,
academic language is the language
of the SAT, the college classroom, and the skilled labor force.
The past decade has seen a relative surge in research conducted in urban, underperforming schools focused on doing exactly this — providing students with deep, language - and content - based instruction, with a focus on teaching both specialized vocabulary and the specialized structures
of language in
academic speech and
text.
Encourage use
of text - to - speech: In later grades, students with dyslexia will need to access
text that is above their
academic ability in order to complete class assignments, and
text - to - speech can be a real game changer.
It has two columns: One side is content in
academic language given to students by their teachers, and the other side is a translation
of that
text or concept in a student's own words — or sometimes shown through a student - created image.
You examine the
text to see how much
of the language is conversational and how much is
academic.
RI.5.4 Determine the meaning
of general
academic and domain - specific words and phrases in a
text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
Resources include: - Creative Writing Package - Essay Writing Resources - Short Story Writing - Everyday
Text Types - How to mark and compose speeches - A HUGE range
of sample
academic report comments (total
of 47 classes)- Introduction to Debating - Mark Record Book - Calculates means, weightings, totals, ranks, etc..
Two central challenges for educators are identifying the correct levels
of academic difficulty for each student and finding methods for ascertaining whether
texts are appropriately challenging.
This is unsurprising when considering Joseph Campbell's
academic text The Hero With a Thousand Faces, which was referred to by filmmaker George Lucas in his creation
of Luke Skywalker.
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.
Using data collected at EF centers in different parts
of the world, the project focused on adolescents»
academic writing proficiencies across different first languages / cultures (China, Russia, U.S.) and across different types
of texts.
The limited research available points to a set
of academic language skills worth exploring in adolescent writing (e.g., skills in lexical precision,
text connectivity, writer's viewpoint).
Our ultimate goal is to highlight the importance
of ongoing adolescent language development for educators, researchers, and policy makers by revealing how teachers» and students» ways
of using language support advances in students»
text comprehension,
academic writing, and school achievement.
Improve efficiency in the use
of educational resources (e.g., open educational resources that increase
academic learning time via
text)
In this webinar, we will discuss four
of the most challenging shifts, including: • Emphasis on
Academic Vocabulary • Complex
Text • Close Reading • Greater Emphasis on Informational
Text Participants will learn what these shifts really mean; how the various ELA standards connect to support them; and practical applications for addressing the shifts in the classroom.
The CALS construct is defined as a constellation
of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written
academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge
of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge
of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge
of structures for organizing argumentative
texts) Over the last years, as part
of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core
academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.
These lessons emphasize key aspects
of college - and career - ready standards, including quality sequenced
text - dependent questions, improved integrated writing tasks, and a focus on
academic vocabulary.
When it comes to finding the deeper meaning in a
text passage, a word cloud is a simple application that you might have seen as a cute bit
of fluff rather than a useful
academic tool.
Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension
of nonfiction
text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus
of the Minnesota K - 12
Academic Standards and the MCA - III assessments.
Parents across the country are trying to make sense
of Common Core standards, a set
of academic expectations that call for less focus on memorization and more focus on explaining how solutions were found and, in English, a deep probe
of text.
The middle grades readers described in the CCSS cite textual evidence to support their ideas, write for different purposes, read across a variety
of texts, and use
academic language throughout the learning process.
We are finding that even though the vast majority
of our youngest readers can manage simple
texts, many students - particularly those from low - income families - struggle when it comes time in grade four to tackle more advanced
academic texts.