Sentences with phrase «read their textbooks as»

According to Barnes & Noble's NookStudy FAQs: «You can not use your Nook or mobile device to read textbooks as the screens are too small to properly view the contents.»

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FACT: Product Idea to Product Success is now read in over 14 countries, and used by major universities as a textbook.

But its validity was suggested as early as 1969, when a Gallup Poll revealed that 58 percent of all Americans had never finished reading a book other than a textbook or the Bible, and only 26 percent had read a book in the previous month.24 One reason for this near - illiteracy is America's addiction to television.

The writer, as parish priest, has read such optional textbooks from Catholic schools in his own area, and is not making comments without actual knowledge.

If you read them as you would a scholastic textbook, trying to trace out neat divisions and subdivisions, exact syllogisms and distinctions, you will quickly lose the thread and indeed the point.

A now discredited «secularization theory» (still to be found in textbooks from fifth grade to graduate school) is that, as people became more educated — read «enlightened» — religion would inevitably decline on its way to disappearing.

We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»

So, when you vaguely tell me something from some textbook, you will understand that I will be wanting to speak from primary sources, as they are all available and voluminous and are currently read all over the world in many languages.

This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

Few essays have been as widely reprinted in anthologies on the sociology of religion, as routinely cited in textbook discussions of religion, or (I suspect) as commonly required on the reading lists for graduate courses and general examinations in sociology of religion.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

At the September workshop, the teachers became the students as they read a research article under the guidance of Sally Hoskins, a professor at City College of New York who studies such educational methods and teaches biology courses that use primary literature in lieu of traditional textbooks.

I would divide distance education via the World Wide Web into three categories, each of which incorporates the previous category: The Web can be used as an electronic textbook to disseminate information for users to read (my own personal Web site is a good example); as an electronic textbook with quizzes, which also fosters interactions between the user and the machine, typically in the form of multiple - choice or true / false tests; and as an electronic conference, which goes beyond the electronic textbook to foster interactions between users and teachers.

It's no surprise that Weid sees it as the perfect place to plop down with a textbook, enjoy a cup of tea, and read in the company of her 52 plant friends.

And, lastly, as a 30 - year college professor, I wanted to include so much more in the book, but alas, no one wants to read a textbook.

As she grew older she became fascinated with science, biology, medicine and biochemistry, and would spend her time reading through medical journals, encyclopedias and textbooks.

As a college student the costs of student housing, textbooks, and tuition... Read More

Rowling fleshes out a story originally mentioned in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as a textbook Harry reads in class.

Like reflecting back on any number of societal injustices as through a textbook or studying up on it in class, the meaning is in the details but you must read to find it.

Although written directly for the screen, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» shares its title with a zoology textbook, written by one Newt Scamander, that popped up as assigned Hogwarts reading in «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.»

We relied mostly on informal assessments, like the states Informal Reading Assessment and the basal textbook assessments as measures, but those instruments were subjective and not reliable.

Oklahoma also has 27 categorical programs that provide money for such efforts as reading initiatives, professional development, textbooks, employee health benefits, and teacher retirement.

It also suggests that technology can be empowering for students who may, for whatever reason, not benefit from traditional study techniques such as reviewing notes, reading paper textbooks or participating in study groups with peers.

During the last decade, the amount of nonfiction included in literature textbooks and on national reading tests such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been increasing.

«We see this not as the only way to teach history but as part of the whole process that will include lecture, textbook reading, and paper writing.

As a result, students are relying less and less on textbooks, and consequently, using reading to learn, he said.

A 2009 study found that eighth - grade students who were involved in hands - on science projects demonstrated a deeper understanding of concepts than students who were taught with traditional methods such as textbook readings, lectures, and tests (Riskowski et al., 2009).

Some complained that textbooks are heavy; many derided them as boring or difficult to read.

Language and reading skills were assessed, primarily using tests created by Snow and Chall as well as existing science textbooks and passages developed in collaboration with local pediatricians.

Creating the memorial... was a lot more meaningful than just reading words in a textbook, because we had to really think about the war's impact on society as a whole and how to display the emotions that came along with it.

Manzo started as a reporter at EdWeek in 1996, covering curriculum and standards, reading policy, textbooks, and educational technology.

And damn sure they never read about it in whatever passes for textbooks in most graduate schools of education, that lame crap masquerading as academic rigor in the diploma mills serving the education profession these days.

Just as preschoolers learn math by operating a pretend store instead of doing work sheets, he suggests high schoolers learn government by staging a mock Congress rather than reading a textbook.

Known for research based on classroom observations and analysis of reading materials, she has served as a consultant to the states of California and Texas regarding textbook adoption and the National Commission on Reading for Becoming a Nation of Rreading materials, she has served as a consultant to the states of California and Texas regarding textbook adoption and the National Commission on Reading for Becoming a Nation of RReading for Becoming a Nation of Readers.

Most reading in the district had been teacher - directed, with a publisher's textbook as the source of instruction; the new high - powered lessons dug deep into comprehension, pushed independent inquiry and analysis, and sparked student engagement.

Concerns arise in middle school and high school as students have difficulties reading and understanding textbooks.

However, their self - confidence and motivation to read roller - coastered each day because in their English class they were expected to read Animal Farm (1993) by George Orwell as well as ninth grade — level textbooks in science and social studies.

The author offers two possible reasons that so many students in grades 5 — 12 struggle with content - area learning: the mismatch between the reading levels of content - area textbooks and students» reading abilities; and the reliance on these textbooks as the main instructional resource for all students.

In other words, if schools use textbooks as the key curriculum content provider, then students need textbooks that they can read accurately, fluently, and with high levels of understanding.

Chall (1983) noted that the demands of reading increase dramatically for students in 4th grade as their learning begins to rely more on textbooks.

As you're sorting through the Teaching Resources area, be sure to take a closer look at the Reading Eggs online textbook «Targeting English.»

Her experience with education is based in her role managing the development of all educational technology products released with Macmillan / McGraw - Hill's pre-K-6 reading textbook programs, several years as a textbook editor, and as an instructional designer for Kaplan.

Many of us would agree that as textbooks and other assigned reading materials grow in terms of difficulty, vocabulary, and structure, it is critical that we collectively help our secondary students continue to refine their reading skills and strategies, as a mechanism to help prepare them for college and career success.

As a result, too many students don't learn much from textbooks that they can't read.

According to the judge's reading of the law, as long as public school students got classrooms with desks, chairs, air to breathe, a teacher, textbooks, and a curriculum, the State had fulfilled most of its obligation to provide an equal educational opportunity.

In a classroom setting where textbooks are used as the main reading material, the texts may not be well - matched to all students.

The fundamental issues remain similar (e.g., teachers or textbooks as drivers of the curriculum, student challenges when using text in courses, cost of books); however, the advent of new technologies, like electronic text (e-text) and reading devices (e-readers) have added more complexity to the discussion.

Subject - area textbooks have long been a part of teacher education, and preservice teachers need to learn and have experiences with effective textbook integration along with other topics, such as reading in the content areas.

Read the white paper on the effectiveness of using VocabularySpellingCity as a supplement with traditional textbooks.

Students may use this feature while reading literature or poetry as well as when studying from a science or social studies textbook.