Sentences with phrase «reading fiction or nonfiction»

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She'll continue to read (or hear the teacher read) fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, but this year she'll be asked open - ended questions about the material to improve reading comprehension.

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).

And in a similarly placed story (on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.»)

Or, at the front end you could allow students the choice of reading To Kill a Mockingbird or reading another book of choice, fiction or nonfiction, that addresses similar themes of race, culture, power, and equitOr, at the front end you could allow students the choice of reading To Kill a Mockingbird or reading another book of choice, fiction or nonfiction, that addresses similar themes of race, culture, power, and equitor reading another book of choice, fiction or nonfiction, that addresses similar themes of race, culture, power, and equitor nonfiction, that addresses similar themes of race, culture, power, and equity.

Students read and analyze passages from real texts — fiction and nonfiction — and sometimes watch video or listen to audio.

Give students time to read in class (fiction and nonfiction) and then do something active with what they read, such as contributing to a class blog, building a museum box, debating a topic in their book, or creating readers» theaters from sections in the book.

Students first read a book (fiction or nonfiction), magazine, textbook, etc..

Reading passages need to be drawn from actual fiction or nonfiction.

Reading features fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, exposition, document, and procedural texts or pairs of texts, and focuses on identifying explicitly stated information, making complex inferences about themes, and comparing multiple texts on a variety of dimensions.

I was the collaborator on the national bestseller The Way of the SEAL (Reader's Digest Books, 2013) among other successful titles, and I'm honored to say that since 1999 I've helped over a hundred books across fiction and nonfiction categories make their way to the reading public one way or another.

Despite, or maybe because of, my being a nonfiction writer, one whose professional career is spent dealing with facts, I like reading fiction in my spare time.

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An intriguing description of the kind of fiction or nonfiction you write, as well as what the reader can hope to learn or experience by reading your books.

I'm fermenting a book, which for me is a lot of imagining rather than writing, and I find that everything I read — fiction or nonfiction — is yeast.

And because so much of her method is based on the science of how we read and engage with story, you'll learn techniques that will also make your fiction or nonfiction writing stronger.

If publishers resorted to the subscription model, I would jump on it like the avid reader I am... I read more than three or four books a week and usually more than one book at a time; usually one fiction and a couple of nonfiction depending on the duration of time I have to read.

Would you like to know more about World War I but are nervous about getting bogged down in weighty nonfiction or possibly flawed fiction reads?

Yes, as long as the translator is reading from his or her own translations and / or conducting a translation workshop in the categories of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction.

Once viewed as a networking site for business people, LinkedIn is quickly becoming the virtual water cooler for people who want to learn about and read your books — whether you write nonfiction or fiction.

Check out the titles on the Young Adult Library Services Association's «What's Cooking» recommended reading list, which features more than 25 titles of fiction and nonfiction books for teens that relate to cooking or food.

If you're writing a fiction series or a collection of nonfiction books on the same topic, it could be well worth your while to establish relationships with regular reviewers who read and review the types of books you write.

Whether you are a nonfiction or fiction author, it's crucial to understand who your target audience is, who do you see reading your book?

What this produces is a list you can toggle to show «Most Read» for a week, in fiction or nonfiction, and «Most Sold» for that week, in fiction or nonfiction.

Reading, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, sparks ideas, creativity, and imagination.