Sentences with phrase «of nonfiction material»

The second new subscription model, Core Clicks, will allow schools to tap into a full catalog of nonfiction material.

According to a new report from the Brown Center on Educational Policy, states that have adopted Common Core standards are likely to see a de-emphasis in use of fiction materials and increased use of nonfiction materials in language classes.

Not exact matches

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 source material for the movie came from John Pearson's «Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty,» a nonfiction account of the crime.

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.

Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.

Similarly, the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education, or NAATE, which provides specialized professional growth opportunities for educators, works to retain teachers and school leaders through opportunities to grow in data - driven instruction techniques, peer leadership, and communication and feedback.32 Building on past professional learning successes via its network of teacher leaders in 185 sites, the National Writing Project's, or NWP's, College Ready Writers Program demonstrated that teachers will commit to and participate in high quality professional development that helps them strategize approaches to teach argument writing using nonfiction texts and provided adaptable classroom materials.

Keep your students» nonfiction reading on track with Trackers, a collection of high - interest books and teacher support materials to focus mainly on nonfiction text features and main idea skills.

Tennessee also requires middle school teachers to pass the Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary Education test, which, under the heading «reading comprehension strategies across text types,» requires teachers to know «how to select and use a variety of informational, descriptive, and persuasive materials at appropriate reading levels to promote students» comprehension of nonfiction, including content - area texts.»

This kit includes a week's worth of nonfiction reading strategies, instructional plans, reading material suggestions, and graphic organizers that coincide with each lesson.

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For this reason, acceptance of previously unpublished manuscripts by UP is limited; most are short nonfiction works with a bare minimum of artwork or graphic material.

Even when you can't interview your characters or directly observe them in action, you can still write great nonfiction narratives from the rich materials of history.

In nonfiction, we will not consider journalism, textbook material, or any other writing that is merely stating facts and does not utilize poetic forms of expression or argue an opinion.

With a selection of original nonfiction titles, excerpts from forthcoming nonfiction books and reprints of nonfiction work we feel deserves to be read again, Now and Then Kindle books are focused on material that is historically based but also has relevance for our world today.

We prefer short nonfiction with a bare minimum of artwork and graphics, but are always interested in quality material, regardless of genre.

The physical section of the library houses all materials for teens: fiction, nonfiction, biography, magazines, graphic novels and manga.

Experienced writers always have stacks of material on their hard drive which they can use to write many nonfiction ebooks, quickly.

A good nonfiction novel can have one of two effects: it pulls you into the material and holds you there until the end; or, it has a lot of excessive information with overly long paragraphs that run on for pages.

Every piece of reading material that crosses a reader's path that isn't fiction is nonfiction.

From cover designs, standard novels, nonfiction books, to cookbooks, we have done just about every type of book, as well as marketing material!

We are highly regarded in a number of areas including nonfiction books for children, instructional materials for teachers, and much more...

UP specializes in nonfiction books by previously published writers, but we are always interested in promising material, regardless of genre or prior publication history.

Frequently, an author will increase the price of a nonfiction book because the additional material makes the book more valuable to the reader.

Increasingly, we've seen the availability of more nonfiction and children's materials (for example, Thomas the Tank), and even some books that are being issued exclusively in the e-book format (for example, Jack Layton's essay collection, Hope is Better than Fear, published by Random House Canada).