Sentences with phrase «of early readers»

I recall my friend being a fairly accomplished pack rat and unable to discard her growing children's library of early readers and baby furniture.

Prepare your manuscript to professional standards, gather a tribe of early readers who will become your superfans, build a platform on the web, make sure your book lands on the right virtual shelves, and be free to self - publish or get an agent and a traditional publishing deal.

Most readers responded well but some of the early readers of the first book resented the direction I took with the series.

My sister is one of my early readers.

I remember being one of your early readers for Pentecost and it seems that you have carried that theme forward.

Also, a brilliant illustrator was one of the early readers who inspired me, and so my main character, Seramis Helleborine, took visual form under the pen of Marjorie Schott, http://www.facebook.com/WaterstriderDesign.

Thankfully some of my early readers saw this and sent notes for corrections which I hastily made and uploaded.

Some of my early readers wanted me to fabricate plot lines in certain places for a different result in the action.

This unusual structure created a unique opportunity for teachers to collaborate on identifying and solving early reading problems among the entire cohort of early readers in the school.

Studies of early readers, those who are able to read phonemically on entering kindergarten, have found similar results.

Share Speaking as a mom of early readers and an avid lover of reading (I only wish my reading list contained something other than children stories, but then again my music selection also suffers the same fate), I strongly believe in the importance of reading (the earlier the introduction to books the better).

One of those early readers was Bono — the lead singer of U2.

This lesson plan was an adaptation of the early reader plan found in the Book Buddies manual (Johnston, Invernizzi, & Juel, 1998).

I'm happy to say that I was one of your earliest readers.

While Thompson believes a perfect world is where print and ebooks co-exist together, she knows how valuable digital books are, particularly in parts of the world where getting a physical copy of an early reader — and one written in the local language — can be extremely difficult.

Not exact matches

As an example, they cited outside research and «early evidence» from a previous study Matias conducted on Internet messaging board Reddit that involved showing readers of Reddit's «r / science» forum rules for commenting.

We don't even have to speculate about what this might look like, since the Washington Post was part of an earlier experiment called «Social Readers.»

An ISIS e-book published in the early days of the Islamic State encouraged readers to check out anti-Israel protests with non-Muslims calling for «the fall of Zionism,» if not to draw recruits from this demographic then relying on their rhetoric to hammer away at the «financial elite.»

«It's time to sleep our way to the top,» Arianna Huffington charged readers of The Huffington Post earlier this year as part of the online newspaper's Sleep Challenge 2010.

Citron, Kickstart readers will remember, is the firm that waged a long battle against Herbalife (which it called a «ponzi scheme») and made a fortune betting against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, of whose management and accounting practices it was an early (and very loud) critic.

Even the idea of «clicking» the banner ad was not obvious at the start — some of the early advertisers didn't even have websites of their own to link their ads to, so clicking their banners took readers to custom pages on HotWired.com.

At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.

It reminded readers of Bushnell's early ties to the man behind the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

CONFIDENCE: Earlier this month, I asked Term Sheet readers to take Semaphore's annual confidence survey of private equity and venture capital professionals.

Beyond Reisman's ambition to offer «the best reading application» anywhere (and early reviews of the software have been favourable), the Kobo experience caters to a reader who is stealing moments throughout their busy day in which to read, on whatever device they happen to have at hand.

Fortune's Term Sheet newsletter asked readers to submit their first memories or early experiences at RadioShack, and got lots of nostalgic replies.

As readers of Austen's early 19th century fiction, such as Pride and Prejudice, will know, the characters (usually the overbearing mothers) referred to a man's value in England's early 19th century on an annuitized basis.

Many of your readers are probably interested in retiring early and want to know when they can be serious about taking the plunge.

To most readers, this did not mean the dissolution of the CEIFB, especially when earlier on the same page, the Minister of Finance stated that «the CEIFB will continue to set the rate but the Government will limit rate increases to no more than 5 cents per year until the EI Operating Account is balanced».

I was pointing that out to the readers at large — to make the point that because there is no claim, and many of the sources are unknown, that these writings often simply describe earlier purported events, that's all the more reason to question them.

Early Friday morning, Catholic blogger and new media guru Brandon Vogt took the text of the papal encyclical Lumen Fidei from the Vatican website where it is available free online, and reformatted it for various readers like Kindle, Nook, and iPad, thinking that it would be a good and evangelical....

Given the author's remarkable learning, most readers are likely to learn a great deal, especially when he uses Augustine's sermons as source material; but the captious tone and prosecutorial zeal of the effort starts to grate as early as the first chapter.

But before I forget, I wanted to tell my UK readers that I have some great news: Out of Sorts was released early for you!

Its authors, Norman Dennis and George Erdos (neither of them Catholic) quoted The Ecclesiastical History of England by the Venerable Bede to remind readers of an earlier time when society had been in an equally parlous state.

While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of God's presence in the world, we sometimes wonder if the church's early theologians invented this connection as an explanation of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead to orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality, much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the real joy and meaning of sex.

If the early stuff — written under the dire influence of Alice Meynell, Francis Thompson, and other «nineties» Catholics — would make a normal reader cringe, and the later stuff — when he had discovered Eliot and modernism — is not technically good, it is nonetheless memorable.

To readers of Gilead and Home, the earlier of Robinson's works focusing on the small Iowa town, Lila will be familiar as the much - younger wife of John Ames, the town's Congregationalist minister (and the narrator of Gilead).

He dismisses the arguments with ease through his outstanding knowledge of scripture and the early Church, while offering the reader a vision of priestly celibacy that is both refreshing and exciting.

Certain topics are tackled early on, including the hideous subject of priests» sexual abuse of minors, and this gives the reader a sense of being present at a conversation which is real and open, not a rant or a monologue.

The earliest of the three (St. Mark) is clearly the work of a writer almost obsessed by the apologetic necessity of somehow making intelligible to his readers the scandalous outcome in rejection and death of the ministry of one whom he clearly believed to be the expected Messiah.

It is hoped that by pursuing certain lines of thought such as those suggested in this chapter, some readers will come to see some new dimensions of the truth of the classic statement by «William James quoted earlier concerning alcohol: «Not through mere perversity do men run after it.»

Although this interpretation of Isaiah 63 may be foreign to current readers, it was almost universal in the early Church.

Hays also seems narrow when he encourages readers to read the OT principally as narrative and not as a «source of oracles, prooftexts, or halakhic regulations,» apparently disqualifying many early Christian authors who cited Scripture in this way.

In the book's concluding chapter, Hays totals the «strengths and weaknesses» of the evangelists as OT readers and outlines briefly a set of ten methodological prescriptions gleaned from the early chapters.

Careful readers of early Genesis are left with a whole range of questions about Adam, Eve and the origin of humanity: Why?

In fact, there is evidence that he did not revise anything, seeking rather through insertions to persuade readers to interpret earlier texts in the light of his final view.

In an earlier essay, Hill quotes a writer familiar to readers of First Things, Eve Tushnet, who also embraces a gay identity.

(The reader is often left uncertain as to whether Bacevich is speaking in his own voice or is simply passing along the views of others, but I take it as significant that he has been an early contributor to Buchanan's new journal, the American Conservative.)

Yet she is not mentioned again — not in Acts, not in the various epistles, not in earliest martyrology — and that is doubtless why in succeeding generations readers, hungry for a more detailed picture of this woman rumored from the first to have been something «special» to Jesus, have given her the characteristics and experiences of other Marys and unnamed biblical women.

Such a history of «subjective aim» is possible only because of a compositional idiosyncrasy of Whitehead's: although he revised his position many times, he tried very hard to preserve the texts of earlier positions in the final version, often by insertions designed to persuade the reader to interpret such texts in the light of later positions.