Sentences with phrase «read nonfiction»

In my spare time I like to read nonfiction, watch documentaries and action movies, and learn about history.

In her spare time, she likes to rollerblade and read nonfiction.

In her spare time, she likes to Rollerblade and read nonfiction.

A November 2015 ALA / BISG study indicated that 58 % of adults read fiction digitally at least some of the time and 53 % read nonfiction digitally.

The most - read nonfiction in 2017 is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson's self - help guide show us how to stop trying to be «positive» all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

The inaugural Most Read nonfiction list at Amazon Charts is led by Mark Manson's «The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck» from HarperOne and agent Mollie Glick.

People who love poetry read on their Kindles when they travel to Paris as readily as people who read nonfiction business books.

I'd love to mix it up a bit and read some nonfiction, especially some of the memoirs that have come out lately (A Mountain of Crumbs has gotten rave reviews from other BookPage editors).

I read a nonfiction book some years ago by a geneticist who pointed out that there are many stops along the line that determines gender.

I am eagerly awaiting a color e-reader with bright colours (other than PocketBook ColorLux) to read nonfiction e-books and e-papers.

Certainly I read nonfiction books, attracted to such books as «A Week in the Life of an Airline Pilot» by William Jaspersohn, but flying a 747 never seemed ordinary.

Or read a nonfiction book about the area and the industry like James Conaway's Napa or A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth, and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma by Alan Deutschman.

If this shift sounds like a tough one, Steve and Smokey share exactly what you need to help students read nonfiction content closely and strategically.

The students are engaged as they read the nonfiction passages and excited to graph and «OWN» their growth and achievement.

We try to read nonfiction stories all the time in our class that integrate math, science and reading!

Before Common Core, students rarely read nonfiction in school.

This «Core of the Core» comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, «closely read» texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts.

When teachers decide to read nonfiction in class, they most often read its narrative forms, precisely because of their accessibility.

Thus, in this chapter, we place particular emphasis on tools teachers can use to read nonfiction's nonnarrative forms more frequently, engagingly, and successfully.

The excerpt we've posted on the Ed Next website focuses on the challenge of preparing students to read nonfiction text, something many educators nationwide are wrestling with as their states transition to the common core.

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline - specific words, but these texts also include many «all - purpose» academic words, such as factor, structure, function, and interpret.

I read nonfiction books.

I challenge you to read a nonfiction book named A Divine Revelation of Hell by Mary Baxter from front to back.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

Spend 15 to 20 minutes over a lunch break reading nonfiction such as Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive While Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, or Whiplash: How to Survive our Faster Future, by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.»

If homebirth was so safe, hospital birth would never have come into being; anyone who's read novels set before modern obstetrics, anyone who's spent ten minutes reading nonfiction about any historical period or paid attention in history class, knows that pregnancy / birth was a * major * cause of death for young women.

«We're interested in reading nonfiction about all aspects of the journey to becoming a parent (or determining a different path).

After she reads a nonfiction passage or chapter, have your child verbally summarize the main ideas and details to you.

We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and cognitive ToM (experiments 4 and 5) compared with reading nonfiction (experiments 1), popular fiction (experiments 2 to 5), or nothing at all (experiments 2 and 5).

Raising kids, though I enjoy reading nonfiction books, which I discovered in graduate school, and reading the occasional fantasy novel.

Guiltless Pleasures: British murder mystery shows, reading nonfiction books, gardening, nature photography, honey roasted peanuts.

We know that there's a renewed emphasis and focus on reading nonfiction, but we also know that English and literacy teachers love their fiction as we do.

You write that the challenges students face in reading nonfiction are both a cause and an effect of the knowledge deficit.

Students often like reading nonfiction less because it's less engaging.

And of course a broad and deep base of knowledge doesn't just assist students in reading nonfiction texts: it makes successful readers of fiction too, just as the knowledge that students derive from reading isn't exclusively from nonfiction.

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions.

This does not mean English teachers need to cut literature from their syllabi; it means that, across all of their high school classes, students should be spending 70 percent of their time reading nonfiction texts.

We've written before that the coming Common Core standards put a greater emphasis on reading nonfiction and could change the kind of texts teachers use in their classrooms.

I'd wager that most of an adult's day is spent reading nonfiction!.

New standards place more emphasis on reading nonfiction, and it's an essential skill for college and career readiness.

One of the biggest changes in the Common Core standards is the emphasis on reading nonfiction.

It also includes a brand new chapter on scaffolding for reading nonfiction and showcases the authors» latest thinking on close reading and text complexity.

With renewed emphasis on reading nonfiction texts, teachers face a challenge.

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eBooks are present in schools; however, students tend to use the ebooks for reading nonfiction related to their school assignments and tend to read fiction for pleasure in print formats.

It's an honest and informative set of thoughts from the author — and good for children reading nonfiction to consider.

I love reading nonfiction and find your sexist generalizations very offensive.

You almost have to check the bibliographic information to remind yourself you are reading nonfiction.

Especially now that many states are adopting the Common Core Standards, which call for students to be reading more informational texts, parents may be wondering just how to get kids reading nonfiction, especially if it's outside a child's usual comfort zone.