Sentences with phrase «on comprehension rather»

Encourage the people who develop questions to focus on comprehension rather than factual recall.

Not exact matches

«We speak on this subject very cautiously and diffidently,» he writes, «rather by way of discussion than coming to definite conclusions... We suppose that the goodness of God will restore the whole creation to unity in the end... If anyone thinks that matter will be utterly destroyed, it passes my comprehension how all these substances can live and exist without material bodies, since to live without material substance is the privilege of God alone... Another perhaps may say that in the consummation all matter will be so purified that it may be thought of as a kind of ethereal substance... But only God knows.»

But organizing this phenomenon with specific learning material can focus comprehension on specific educational outcomes, rather than encourage the younger tyke to imitate the older child's messy bedroom habits.

Her studies have revealed that the brain does not simply rely on the incoming sounds that reach the ear to understand and retain speech, but rather also relies on information from other senses and prior knowledge to facilitate comprehension.

Stepping toward the augmentation level, students may use screencasting to demonstrate solving a math problem, or labeling a process that focuses more on demonstrating their comprehension rather than presenting facts.

It presses for a twin focus on fluency in decoding words and reading comprehension, urges reading improvement programs to stress impact rather than the number of children served, and calls for strengthening professional development and linking improved training in language development and reading to classroom practice.

Introducing new words and using full sentences («yes, we do need to put on our raincoats» rather than «yes, sure») also expands vocabulary, which not only helps students when they are first learning to read at around the ages of five and six, but also later in elementary school when they take the next steps and work on comprehension and fluency — the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

These all promote the view that comprehension depends on having formal skills rather than broad knowledge.

(Of course, as with computer - based instruction, to be truly effective tutoring needs to be connected to the content students are learning rather than just focused on free - floating comprehension skills.)

The writing may be a journal entry about the text, or may be a fill - in - the blank worksheet that focuses on the text's meaning (rather than on a comprehension skill or vocabulary words).

Elementary schools — in the United States and, it appears, in Britain — then compound the problem by focusing on reading comprehension strategies, like «making inferences» and «finding the main idea,» rather than on building knowledge in subjects like history or science.

This familiarity allows me to do more extension activities, rather than focusing only on comprehension.

The culprit seemed to be too much focus on enjoying what the screen could do rather than the material itself, which isn't necessarily bad if the emphasis on the learning was supposed to be critical thinking or investigation, rather than comprehension.

Rather than work toward an understanding of how a sculpture both creates and occupies space, we tend to focus on the comprehension of the subject matter and on the material qualities of the work of art.»