Sentences with phrase «reading narrative fiction»

Their test scores are higher when reading narrative fiction than when reading informational text.

Not exact matches

My narrative unit now focuses on reading and writing historical fiction and / or science fiction writing.
Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.
Will highlight students» areas of strength and weaknesses in key reading areas including: giving / explaining meanings of words in context, retrieving and recording information / identifying key details from fiction and non-fiction, summarising main ideas from one or more paragraphs, making inferences from the text / explaining and justifying inferences with evidence from the text, identifying / explaining how information / narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as a whole, and identifying / explaining how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases.
Today, Stopher's class is reading fiction and is focused on the measurement topic narrative comprehension.
Similarly, teachers can begin to use more informational text in guided and shared reading, which traditionally has involved mostly narrative fiction.
Best known for her work on the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (read our interview with her on the books here), she's now making her second foray into adult fiction after The Last Summer (of You and Me), your basic first - novel narrative of love and friendship.
One of the things I love about reading and writing Flash fiction is that a story can turn or pirouette in one sentence from a standard narrative to something that floats off the page and impacts the r...
Both fiction and nonfiction require a narrative structure that encourages the reader to continue reading.
She enjoys reading practically anything, but especially literary fiction, thrillers, and narrative memoirs.
She loves to read and review literary fiction and narrative non-fiction and is most comfortable when her bedside stash of books looks like a Jenga pile.
These essays burst with narrative and read like fiction, yet their styles are vehicles through which ideas and information are dramatically, vividly revealed.
I've never read or heard a piece that was told in this form of narrative, 10 minutes of flash fiction the room was silenced in awe of his use of rhetoric and narrative.
Creative nonfiction employs literary devices, techniques, and elements of style more commonly associated with fiction to create a factually accurate nonfiction narrative that reads in a vivid and compelling way.
What she wants to read: Literary and commercial fiction, especially upmarket and women's fiction, as well as select memoir, narrative nonfiction, cultural studies, and pop culture.
Again, these self - publishing channels don't seem to be the go - to place for publishers to find contract - worthy literary fiction and narrative nonfiction (the latter of which is Friedman's preferred reading).
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But it's a strong showing, especially since the reading material being tested was narrative fiction so e-readers would have gained no advantage from digital - specific functions such as search or portability.
Succumbing to the axiom that romance is the strongest narrative in all fiction, I read and write romance, and I've connected with many same - genre authors on various social media platforms.
«The next step is for that technology to enable new forms of reading and writing — digital fiction that pushes the boundaries of how we think about narrative and storytelling.»
Pattison's Free Traveller is inspired by various narrative fictions that exist in time from the 1940's island narrative, The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Cesares, reading this from a modern perspective to Visit Port Watson!
His early projects — including environments made with found objects; wry, narrative photo works; and a novel copied by hand — began a career - long practice of creating works that prompt both reading and looking, and that intertwine fact with fiction.
By reading this text, you have entered this museum of leaves we have yet to define, and are now contributing to A House of Leaves, a co-author of this narrative, a player of this game, a character of this fiction, a performer in this symphony.
His work, which includes documentary, fiction and experimental narratives, takes a critical stance on modern - day social, political and cultural phenomena to suggest a reading of our society from its margins.
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