Sentences with phrase «read library books on»

As Mike Cane noted, this app will also allow you to read LIBRARY BOOKS on your device.

It just isn't as user friendly as Kindle or Kobo (both are really easy to read library books on.

Not exact matches

«School libraries around the country are being shuttered,» Soeiro, a school librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family Reading blog.

In my search for a new book to read on keywords I went straight to the source, Lee Odden's office library.

The bible is not a book to be read one way, but rather a library of books, each to be read differently depending on if it is: historical account, or parables, or narrative, or symbolism or poetry or songs.

Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

... my memory of his sojourn there [at Tuskeegee University] was kept alive by the sight of his name on checkout slips of so many of the library books of fiction, poetry, history, and literary criticism that had become the main part of my own personal extracurricular reading program.

Maintaining a growing library of books that you've read (whether it's on your Kindle or iPad or, you know, one of those actual «shelves» that old mansions in the movies have), is a good habit to get into at any age.

I set up an excellent home library filled with books I love, and will spend all of next year getting caught up on all the stories I haven't read yet.

I have put your book on hold at the library and look forward to reading it.

I read your notes on the library page, and I've got the book on my christmas wishlist, but I've been told people are sick of buying me cookbooks and can't I ask for something more interesting: -LRB-

We've told people not to get us anything and for our kids we've asked for visits and just getting down on the floor and playing with them and their wood blocks or reading our library books...

I suggested we take the book on as a project - reading the section on each artist, and then search our bookshelves (and maybe the library) for the books illustrated by said artist - to give a closer look to and study their style.

It's virtual book club time with Toddler Approved and The Educators Spin On It — and we have read this book online as our library couldn't get us a copy in time.

So go to the library and stock up on some age - appropriate books and get to reading together!

- We also have a terrific library loan program, and I have read every semi-natural birthing book I can get my hands on.

Always within reach - and right next to the window; And we always have a basket of seasonal books handy too; A basket of library books (not that keeping them all in one place helps me actually return them); An always - rotating basket of frequently read - usually «new» to us - books right next to the couch (these are the titles I usually share in the sidebar); and on and on.

Even if you live in an area that doesn't offer childbirth classes - you can greatly benefit by going to a bookstore (online or otherwise) or even to the library and reading books on the subject.

Go to your local library and bookstore and get a few books on home schooling (don't buy too many books, or you'll get overwhelmed and won't read them).

Have them go to the library and seek out just one book to read over the summer, maybe while lying on the beach or for the quiet days when no one is around.

Lay on a blanket outside and read a book, set up a mini desk on the deck for «homework» or to «play school», bike the library instead of drive.

Visit the library regularly and keep books in easy - to - reach places so that when you're tempted to turn on the TV, you can grab a book and read with your kids instead.

So why do some books that aren't) of obvious (at least to me) interest to most high school students placed on reading lists, and why are others of much greater interest (as judged by sales and / or library borrowings) ignored?

All 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries and the Books on Wheels Bookmobile are currently offering hundreds of Summer Reading «Build a Better World» programs, including Passport to Reading, Read Down Your Fines, Radio DJ Storytelling, Library Night @ Holland Speedway Races and Library Night @ the Ballpark with the Buffalo Bisons.

Local teens and pre-teens are gearing up for the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's Battle of the Books, an exciting annual reading trivia competition featuring more than 150 contestants on 23 teams representing 14 area libraries.

The library is also hosting many events throughout the summer such as Battle of the Books, Canalside's «On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!»

In chapter 24 of book VII, on the topic of memory, Pliny mentions king Cyrus of Persia, who knew the names of all his soldiers; Scipio, who knew the names of all in Rome; Cineas, king Pyrrhus's ambassador, who learned the names of all the Roman senators just one day after arriving in Rome; Mithridates Eupator, who administered justice in the 22 languages spoken in his empire; Simonides, inventor of mnemonics; or Charmadas the Greek, who could recite by heart any book from a library as though he were reading it.6

Lee would read every bodybuilding and fitness magazine that he could get my hands on buying magazines and going to the library to check books out.

I read every book my library had on nutrition, fitness, and health that sounded promising.

I'll probably plan on reading the next book when it comes out but will just get it from the library.

This is an article on Listening Books, a library service for anyone who struggles to read in the usual way.

My students love writing notes on the inside cover of books from the classroom library to encourage other students to read them.

As an adult, you probably like getting recommendations from friends and colleagues on what to read, but if every time you went to the library one of the staff picked out your books, it's a fair bet you may start to lose interest.

Resource bundle includes: - a presentation for staff on Accelerated reader including purpose and benefits - including educational research regarding the importance of reading - a presentation for students on Accelerated reader and DEAR - templates for book and library passes - example book marks - an example student planner page to log reading - a presentation on reading engagement strategies

The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.»

Today Room to Read operates in Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia, focusing on resourcing communities in five areas: creating and stocking libraries, publishing children's books in local languages, constructing schools, establishing long - term girls» scholarships, and building computer and language labs.

We propose the active participation of the school library media program toward the development of STEM identities among young people by having school librarians (1) provide advisory information on the science - infused books and programs that young people can read — the school librarian as the information specialist; (2) collaborate with STEM teachers and provide intellectual and physical access that further enrichs the STEM learning — the school librarian as the instructional partner; and (3) act as technology allies to help educators and students experiment with new media tools and online communities.»

We also know that city school libraries are short on pleasure reading books.

In summary, this is a book that deserves a place in every school's CPD library and should be required reading on teacher training courses.

Other Urban Legends include: Humphrey Bogart was the original Gerber baby on their baby food ads, the FBI monitors public libraries and notes who reads «subversive» books, and my favorite: If the entire population of China jumped up at the same time, the US would be swamped by a tidal wave.

Based on what was sound advice for guided reading, many primary and intermediate teachers spent days leveling every book in their classroom library.

This includes teaching students how to utilize the classroom library and make book choices based on purpose, interest, and reading!

Spencer, who has been reading a book alongside classmates who are taking the test on various days, said it would have been more comfortable to have been allowed to leave the testing area and sit in the library.

Currently, between 200 and 350 students visit the new library on a daily basis to read, do school work, or to take out or return a book.

The money could be spent on reducing class size, books, reading and ESL specialists, books for the library, paras for each classroom, before and after school programs and the list could go on.

Back - seat passengers turned the car into a rolling library: They turned on the rear cabin lights, opened books and magazines and settled down to reading for 50 miles or so.

Visitors would be able to check out books to read on their own e-readers or tablets, or borrow one of the library's 150 take - home e-readers.

Whether looking for a book in the library, a local bookstore, or online, readers depend on good book metadata to find their next read.

You have to go to the library, maybe the book has been checked out and you have to come back another time... With ebooks, you sit on your couch in your living room and go to the library website, see if the library has it... You get the book, read it, return it and get another, all without paying a thing... How is that a good model for us?»