Sentences with phrase «reading practice as»

Our Close Reading of Complex Texts Maps, co-developed with literacy experts Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey, provide hands - on close reading practice as well as strategies and resources to choose appropriate complex texts, develop text - dependent questions, and promote classroom discussions.

It is time to put as much focus on reading practice as we do on school culture, student - educator relationships, and socioeconomic factors.

Not exact matches

As we keep reading and learning about best practices to foster gender diversity, we realize that there is no definitive answer.

I invested my time in reading, coaching, conferences, and yoga / meditation as well as a faith practice — and, in each, allowed my natural instincts to discern what lessons to keep and what not to.

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

As you read about, practice, and get a handle on these SEM skills, you'll eventually be able to add SEM literacy to your resume, and — regardless of whether you're looking to work as a web designer or a web developer — boost your value to potential clients and employerAs you read about, practice, and get a handle on these SEM skills, you'll eventually be able to add SEM literacy to your resume, and — regardless of whether you're looking to work as a web designer or a web developer — boost your value to potential clients and employeras a web designer or a web developer — boost your value to potential clients and employers.

Under the terms of the deal, entire news stories from those partners will appear inside Facebook's mobile app and be able to be read there, as opposed to the traditional practice of news publishers posting an excerpt and a link to their website.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

If the person slicing up the Black Forest ham is wearing the same white coat as the one reading your prescription, the pharmacist seems just a little less special, and so does the place he or she practices in.

But then — as soon as you can — come back, finish reading the guide, and put everything you've learned into practice.

I have been critical of the Globe «s business reporting practices in the past (especially its tendency to quote Bank economists as «objective» observers of economic events) but on Saturday, it ran one of the best business pieces I've read in a long time.

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It's a quick, fun read, and it has some good takeaways to think about regarding corporate management practices, market efficiency (or lack thereof), and individual investor behavior — all things that I think are useful to keep in mind as an investor in the stock market.

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi.

Please read I Corinthians 15 in its entirety and you'll find that the chapter has nothing to do with «baptizing for the dead» as the Mormons practice it but rather the fact that baptism is symbolic of the death, burial and resurrection.

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi).

My understanding, as well as from what I've read about my church, is that God is the guiding force behind such phenomenons we learn about when we practice and study science to understand the natural world.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

When I would teach / preach on «tithing» as a New Testament practice, I would ask the listener (read: giver - to - be) the following question: «If in the New Testament we find no reference to «tithing» let alone a stated percentage to give to the «church», and if it is our understanding (perhaps even our practice!)

Paradoxically, a commitment to more formal content creates another tension, as faculty members struggle to balance modes of learning from reading and discussion and the sort of theological reflection on practice and experience that the new program seeks to inculcate.

Theological synthesis is attained slowly When student recognize the inherent relationships among the readings, the practices of ministry, and learnings from other courses as well, we consider the program a success.

More significant, it has encouraged faculty to treat contextual education as a «real course» with substantial content — syllabi, readings, reflective pedagogical practices.

Her daily practice reveals the potential power of reading as well as religion.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

If you believe in The Bible, as we do, being Christians, then this is true: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15:28-30&version=NIV or you can read it here also: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-cor/15.29?lang=eng#28 So, even though CNN wants to ridicule a Gospel principle, for us, LDS member, we have nothing to hide, it's in the Bible and at the time of Christ that was a practice that was in place as part of the Gospel of Christ.

The Ekklesia Project has also produced about a dozen booklets, with more to come, on specific practices of the church, such as preparing for marriage, hymn - singing, reading scripture, evangelizing and so on.

Interest in oriental religion goes back in America to the early 19th century, as we have seen, but never before have significant numbers of people gone beyond reading books to become adepts and engage in arduous practice.

Though early Christian exegesis may on first reading appear idiosyncratic and arbitrary, it arose within the life of the Church and was practiced within a tradition of shared beliefs and practices, guided by the Church's faith as expressed in the creed.

For, recognizing that «there is a difference between translating what the text means and translating what it says,» he emphatically elects the latter, thus reconnecting the genre of modern Bible translation with the ancient practice of reading aloud and, as a result, conveying much of the texture of the Hebrew in ways that other translations can not.

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

It seems, however, that many of the early church fathers didn't mention this practice (as far as I've read, mostly from Augustine).

And Protestants possessed a sense of unity as well, mostly when confronted by Catholics seeking public money for parochial schools or Jews seeking to oust Bible readings from public schools and other practices that seemed to cross the church - state line.

Even if one can in principle assign implicit prices to in - kind goods and services, in practice pricing the unpriced can be deviously difficult, as can be seen by reading the methods sections of papers in environmental economics as they come up with absurdly varying estimates of how to value an un-dammed river.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

The above read the Bible as do all practicing Christians who are faithful servants.

Such practices as reading the Bible, hearing sermons, practicing family worship, and examining one's spiritual life all came to be emphasized as evidences of divine election.

Conversos were investigated not so much for explicitly denying their new creed, but for continuing Jewish practices, such as reading Hebrew texts, marking the Sabbath and eating unleavened bread.

As we read about each day, this unnatural practice continues to cause problems for the religious institutions that advise / employ it.

The fascinating story of how medieval Irish monks» practices of reading and writing, along with their efforts to teach others to do the same, saved Western civilization as we know it.

The first rule of successful preparation for oral reading is get on your feet and practice as soon as possible!

Evangelism should be a spiritual practice, not a program... as normal as reading your bible or praying.

As you begin to practice reading this letter, note the weaving between «foolishness» and strength of conviction and character that emerges from the text.

But while doing this, as a lifetime practice, we ought to read the Bible devotionally, accompanying it with prayer, waiting before it in quietness and with self - examination to see what God is Saying to us through it.

At a time when most slaves in French Saint - Domingue were illiterate, Louverture was well - read enough to accuse his rivals of practicing «Machiavellism» and Napoleon of hounding him as the Romans hounded Hannibal.

I saw how much spiritual benefit I received from reading and studying Scripture and theology, and I assumed that everyone else would get just as much benefit from these practices as I had.

Only practicing Protestants (those who identify as Protestant, attend church at least once a month, and say their faith is very important to them) thought the Bible was especially needed this year: 86 percent said politicians would be more civil if they read their Bible regularly, up from 81 percent in 2015.

The kind of reading we practice approximates what Paul J. Griffiths has called «religious reading,» as distinct from «consumerist reading,» which makes us users, buyers and sellers of texts.

This book presented a non-violent reading of Scripture in light of Girard's mimetic theory, but more than anything, this book was a defense of how the Catholic Mass could still be practiced and not be viewed as a perpetual sacrifice.

The triad «texts, symbols and practices» points to the fact that the life of a church does not only consist in the reading and interpretation of texts but also of symbols and customs, especially as they are used in worship.