Sentences with phrase «reading a textbook from»

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I looked into a chemistry textbook my son brought home from school... Needless to say, I burned that evil thing and made sure the Bible was the ONLY thing he reads...

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.

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.

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.

He holds degrees in English and theology from Wheaton College and currently spends most of his day reading math and science textbooks.

«After spending many weeks reading their textbooks and articles from Advertising Age, they can take theory and put it into practice.

The program covers tuition, textbooks, additional readings, transportation to and from field program sites, meals while traveling and camping in the Apostle Islands, specialized outdoor equipment, instruction and support from Shedd Aquarium and Wilderness Inquiry mentors.

The statement read in part «The Indigenous People of Biafra under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has written and given instructions to every academic institution in Biafraland from nursery school to University to revert to original geography textbooks with Bight of Biafra in it.

He could no longer read textbooks, and his limited range of motion prevented him from using Braille's math equivalent.

After six months, this one small change resulted in me reading an entire 500 page anatomy and physiology textbook from cover to cover.

Although textbooks and studies are good resources, I enjoyed reading about other women's birth experiences and the lessons they drew from them.

From Alastair Sim's textbook portrayal to the likes of Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, Albert Finney, the Muppets and even Mr. Magoo, you might think you've seen it all, but now along comes a complete original and a breath of fresh air to the saga of Ebeneezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past... Read

In fact, while some may argue that there is an inherent value in classroom teaching and reading from textbooks that eLearning materials can not copy, studies suggest that isn't true.

A photo caption accompanying a story in the print version of the Sept. 21, 2005, issue of Education Week («Reading From the Right,») about Neal Frey, a textbook reviewer in Longview, Texas, included incorrect information.

With Augmented Reality products like Elements 4D by Daqri, students manipulate and combine elements — like mercury — right from their Android or iOS devices, rather than just reading about them in a textbook.

For example, during the unit he teaches on the U.S. Constitution, he gives his students a choice of reading or listening to an audio recording from the textbook, watching an explanation that he has prerecorded, viewing a video on BrainPop.com, or listening to a musical explanation of the Constitution on Flocabulary.com.

Joy Hakim: When I saw the textbooks my kids brought home from school, and listened to their anguish about having to read them, I decided to see what I could do.

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.

This professor can use their own knowledge, metaphors, and also have their learners read from the physics textbook...

After the students and I had read and discussed some of the background information from our textbook, I devised a day of differentiated comprehension activities.

Assign reading of content area material from articles and textbooks, and have students write and present about content area learning objectives in your classroom.

The school uses few textbooks because classes move too quickly — «No textbook is going to fit the bill for more than two weeks,» she said — and because students prefer the variety of perspectives that come from reading original sources.

In What Johnny Shouldn't Read, Joan DelFattore, a writer and University of Delaware English professor, uses case studies to drive home the point that mounting pressure from special - interest groups is altering the content of school textbooks.

In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.

After reading from a textbook, students define terms in a written journal.

The stories came from textbooks, and each story was selected based on what skill or reading strategy it could help kids learn.

And a recent South African study from 2014 found «students, especially girls, do better on reading tests when they have their own copies of textbooks».

Selected reading passages are from Prentice Hall's Science Explorer and World Studies textbooks.

Referring back to our example of Jerome's homework completion rate, we could propose the following hypothesis: Jerome submits 40 % of the total homework in his History course because he does not have a reading fluency level that matches the reading fluency level of the textbook from which assignments are created.

Selections will be similar in format to excerpts from trade books, content textbooks, magazines, or practical reading tasks.

For example, asking students to read a textbook chapter on the computer that they could read from a printout or the textbook itself is not an effective use of a device or its embedded technology.

Even students who read on grade level may have trouble learning from their textbooks.

ASCD's new three - tape video series, Reading in the Content Areas, features middle and high school teachers using reading strategies to help their students read for information and retrieve knowledge from textbooks and other matReading in the Content Areas, features middle and high school teachers using reading strategies to help their students read for information and retrieve knowledge from textbooks and other matreading strategies to help their students read for information and retrieve knowledge from textbooks and other materials.

Richard L. Allington («You Can't Learn Much from Books You Can't Read») cites research showing that many classrooms use textbooks written above the reading level of their students.

So we're looking to take kids further away from worksheets and just sitting down and reading a textbook, and much more into experiential, project based learning so they can really get a sense of how things work and those things will translate over into the test scores.

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

Many students find textbooks both unwieldy and dull and need strategies for reading and learning from textbook sources.

None of our current methods attempt to steadily build up children's knowledge; not the empty state and district language arts standards, which rarely mention a specific text or piece of information; not the reading textbooks, which jump from one trivial piece to another; and not the comprehension drills conducted in schools in the long periods of 90 — 120 minutes devoted to language arts.

Children learn to read from picture books and childrens literaturenot textbooks.

Participants were 11th and 12th grade students identified with learning disabilities in reading and writing from two intact, self - contained social studies classes.During the three weeks of the study, students in the experimental group received content regarding the Industrial Revolution via a conceptually framed, computer - adapted text, while students in the control group were taught the same content using the district adopted textbook.

The goal of this schoolwide effort is to ensure that all students can read and learn from academic text, including content area textbooks and literature, and that they will be motivated to engage in reading for many different purposes.

Facing the challenges associated with an increase in student population from 3,600 in 2001 to over 13,000 in 2017, Vail has used the Beyond Textbooks approach to increase student achievement in math and reading from levels near or below state averages prior to the advent of the program to pass rates that are now consistently 20 % or more above state averages and greater than 90 % year after year at most grade levels.

When my six year old regularly bubbles in her reading test each week (from a cc - aligned, very expensive new textbook), her teacher loses valuable time in which she could be teaching first graders to READ.

Her heavy reliance on textbook readings and written assignments means students can not pick up cues from her teaching strategies and she is unable to gauge how they might present themselves in a classroom, she said.

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

Bringing more nonfiction into students» lives will require many educators to stretch a little — from English teachers who love to inspire others through their favorite poems to science teachers accustomed to relying on textbooks to kids whose reading of choice is fiction, fiction, and more fiction.

Unlike both generations of R8 the new TT RS Roadster does more or less read from the very well thumbed Audi dynamic textbook — huge grip and traction, plenty of body control and lots of stability, but gentle understeer beyond the limit and not much by way of excitement — but it does so while feeling lighter on its toes and more agile than ever before.

Whether it's the latest title from a legacy publisher's hottest author, or a graduate - level biochemistry textbook, there is a severe disillusion on the part of the reading public that ebooks should automatically... [Read more...]

The new digital textbook section has offerings from most major publishers such as Pearson, Wiley, Macmillian Higher... [Read more...]

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.