Sentences with phrase «readers learn the stories»

The new feature is the latest marketing tool for Smashwords authors and helps readers learn the stories behind their favorite authors.

Smashwords Interviews is a fun author marketing tool that makes it easy to create and publish a Q&A - style interview profiling that helps your readers and prospective readers learn the story behind you, the author.

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Focus instead on how readers can benefit from the story (and no, learning about your new product isn't a benefit to readers).

A blog reader sent in a story about how he and his wife are learning to be the church in his community.

As the delusional fellow tries to learn why he's surrounded by phony doubles of everyone once familiar to him, and while his sister and a therapist try to help him see reality, readers find themselves sliding into the baffling blindness that affects everyone in the story and keeps them from ever seeing or knowing the truth of their own lives, much less anyone else's.

The Name of the Rose (1980) was, if not a masterpiece, a very good story, and one that distributed its pleasures with equal liberality to learned and casual readers alike.

As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret: the creatures that his stories made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books.

The Resource provides examples of how health professionals can support schools in promoting optimal health and learning outcomes, walks readers through their role in the Healthy Schools Process, and provides real stories of CSH in action from the perspective of health professionals across the province.

As I go though, I'm learning more and more of my readers are more interested in the positive parenting so I'm focusing more on that and «seasoning» it with the daily stuff if it is a good story to tell.

Ringwald, who had learned French while attending a French high school in Los Angeles, remained there, dividing her time between reading (she has been a voracious reader since childhood when she and her siblings would read stories to her blind father), writing short stories and screenplays, cooking, and hanging out with her French husband.

And he had an incredibly good time doing so as readers will learn in this hilarious story about making it in Hollywood and directing, cowriting, and costarring in one of the best - loved and most - watched comedies of all time.

Reader Bee and the Story Tree by Learning Circle Kids LLC takes a wonderful, revolutionary, new approach for beginning readers — you don't want to miss this one!

It takes the readers on a learning journey but in a way that is full of fun activities, set in the context of a timeless story that is known and loved around the world.»

Each story includes activities, such as matching games for learning word meaning, spelling activities, quizzes to see how well readers remember the story, and write an answer activities to encourage readers to think about the story.

Sullivan's bios are bound to motivate students to explore library and Internet resources to learn more about these important men and women, but the stories have great potential for serving an even higher purpose — for instilling in readers of all backgrounds the importance of discipline, pride, perseverance, and education!

It typically covers a newsworthy eLearning story that prompts readers to learn more about the topic.

In my 2013 book, Authentic Learning Experiences: A Real - World Approach to Project - Based Learning, I take readers through a variety of Authentic Learning Experiences that were shared with me as stories.

In this nonfiction story, readers learn how and why scientists brave the extreme conditions of both poles in order to do research that...

Catholic Schools are offering a special study guide, Learning About St Patrick, which parents and teachers can use to accompany The Story of Saint Patrick, an engaging and easy - to - understand book that introduces young readers to the inspiring life of the Patron Saint of Ireland and the Archdiocese of New York, and helps them understand why we celebrate -LSB-...]

Learn about Read Naturally GATE, which uses nonfiction stories to systematically teach foundational skills to small groups of beginning and developing readers.

Reading Strategy Poster & Tip Sheet will help primary grade - level readers learn to retell a story and state its most important details.

Readers will learn from the latest research findings, the author's own experiences, and school success stories as they explore strategies proven to work.

Shared reading allows children to connect with the reader and feel empowered by the contributions they are making to the story which stimulates their learning.

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You learn what is happening in their lives — details that you can work into your stories so that they resonate with these readers and more who are just like them.

«Creator Chika Shiomi weaves an enticing story that links each of the main characters» past and present lives and generates some potent sexual tension as readers learn more about Yukari's past.

These days we also need the drive to build a social media presence and author platform while we're learning craft, or all those lovely stories won't reach readers.

by Anne R. Allen You can learn all you want about writing powerful prose, well - planned story arcs, lyrical descriptions — or any other aspect of fiction — but if you don't have a protagonist your readers care about, none of the rest matters.I don't think it's terribly relevant to talk about character «likability» in the sense of «niceness.»

It's where every part of your communication strategy meets — clickthroughs from your search engine ads, folks who heard you on NPR and want to learn more (dream big, folks), reporters checking you out for a story, readers who clicked from your Facebook page for more information, or people who picked up your literature at that reading you did last week.

Crace archly explores life and death and the effect of chance in this story of Celice and Joseph, married, middle - aged zoologists who, readers learn, have been murdered at the onset - the rest is an enthralling meditation on what happened.

Of course, readers want an emotional coupling with the story and the characters, but we authors should learn to push the nonfiction informational aspects in our novels that would add to a reader's knowledge as well as the pure entertainment of reading our novel.

The other essential common ingredient of both approaches is that turning a raw story into a finished novel requires seeking out and learning from a network of editors, cover artists, publicists, and proof readers.

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Learn to combine these two essential elements into a story that will hook young readers!

If you want lots of readers, you need to learn to deliver your stories in scenes too.

Readers want a good story — and I agree that we can learn from genre writers.

Through the story, readers learn about the importance of avoiding people's allergens, knowing the signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis, having access to two epinephrine auto - injectors, and being prepared to respond if anaphylaxis occurs.»

While there was some data from the Center for Teaching through Children's Books that seemed to show children actually learn less and retain less content and demonstrate a lower level of comprehension when reading an enhanced ebook app (there's simply too much distracting content that takes away from the story line), Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, countered that argument with the explanation that e-readers are engaging reluctant and disinterested readers in higher numbers than ever before.

Using poems and stories written in childhood, Brown explores the impact of her own learning disabilities on her growing up and challenges readers to take responsibility for themselves.

Distinctly expressive lines, boldly contrasting illustrations, and minimal text draw the reader into this beautifully poignant story of love, learning, and loss.

Ultimately, Matthew Goodman pulls together a riveting story that has the bones of a true and fascinating history and the heart of a great adventure: The reader not only learns about Nellie Bly and her attempt to exceed the travel time of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days, but also has the pleasure of visiting the world of the 1890s, meeting Joseph Pulitzer, understanding the plight of Chinese workers in America, traveling in luxury trains and boats, seeing beautiful places before industrial pollution took place, and so much more.

With slapstick humor and witty asides to the reader, The Death - Defying Pepper Roux is a funny, fast - paced read... Ultimately this is the story of a good - hearted boy who only wants to live, but in the process of trying to do just that he learns that simply living is not enough.

Narrated bu different characters, sometimes the reader learns back stories, oftentimes the future, but will it be real and the parts about Edie always have the subtitle of her weight.

The drama of the love story that evolves is a chance for the reader to learn of the development in South Korea as well as the customs.

This is the difficult subject to talk about because all new writers must go through a learning curve to get craft up to certain «levels» that will allow readers to follow your story and stay involved with your story.

With a compelling quick read for every moment, B&N Readouts will pique reader curiosity and keep them entertained when they're looking to learn something new or to escape into a good story for a few minutes each day.

Publishing and telling stories that readers want to read does take skill and craft and it takes some study to even learn the basics.

Then learn dozens of ways you can use character, story, and prose to elicit emotion in readers - and make your stories unforgettable!

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