What happens if we neglect
teaching reading as a life - long skill as opposed to simply consuming information presented in a digital format?
I appreciated the acknowledgement of the complexity of
teaching reading as well as the simplicity of the advice being broken down into three foundational competencies - word work, fluency and comprehension.
I began to see
teaching reading as a systematic, intellectually stimulating pursuit, rather than a simply idealistic one.
Another example: Standard 2 on «Early Reading» assesses whether «The program trains teacher candidates to
teach reading as prescribed by the Common Core State Standards.»
Yet most U.S. schools
teach reading as if both decoding and comprehension are transferable skills.
For decades, most elementary schools have
taught reading as a skill: children have practiced reading comprehension strategies like «finding the main idea» or «making inferences» on simple stories.
The National Council on Teacher Quality, with support and praise from the Fordham Institute, are grading teacher training programs on whether «The program trains teacher candidates to
teach reading as prescribed by the Common Core State Standards.»
When not
teaching he reads as many comics as he can, both current and classic.
Not exact matches
Read faster and retain more: Train your eye to read groups of words rather than sounding out individual words in your head, known as sub-vocalizing, says Beth Moreno, a University of Texas prof who teaches speed - reading cour
Read faster and retain more: Train your eye to
read groups of words rather than sounding out individual words in your head, known as sub-vocalizing, says Beth Moreno, a University of Texas prof who teaches speed - reading cour
read groups of words rather than sounding out individual words in your head, known
as sub-vocalizing, says Beth Moreno, a University of Texas prof who
teaches speed -
reading courses.
Musk has also mentioned The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as one of his favorite
reads, claiming it
taught him that «the question is harder than the answer.
In August of 2011, I started my blog with the aim of
teaching people how to save money
as well
as journaling my personal finance journey after
reading a magazine that featured a personal finance website in one of their articles.
The Pharisees were the group who
taught that the letter of the law kills, and thus were seen
as merciful and kind (Josephus), versus the Sadducees who didn't believe in the «oral
teachings» and thus
read the Tanach very literally and applied it literally.
If you think the bible is enough, just look at the hundreds of traditional - Christian churches that
read from one bible, yet
teach hundreds of different doctrines, which confuses us
as to which interpretation is the truth.
I never
as - sume anyone has
as many books
as I have, because I have been collecting books and
reading since my sisters
taught me to
read when I was five.
The mythical friend Gabriel was the mythical friend of Jesus the Messaih accompanying him all time
as per the Quran
readings... this mythical friend is the right hand for God and was sent to nearly all messengers of God to deliver
teachings from God to his messengers and Gabriel is the only Angel that has minimum number of wings reaching the sixth heaven
as a limit...
as per my
readings and narrow knowledge... Reality you are playin with fire here show respect even if you are agnostic about all
as you are only human and do not know the unknown of see the unseen or touch the untouched or feel the unfelt because even when you are alone you are not alone.
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!)
I know ignorance makes people say stupid things but
as many problems it has a solution:
reading and learning!!!! Muslims will never say anything bad about the Holy Books or about the prophets because all of them are part of Islam and it's
teachings.
Throughout my life
as a christian, i was never
taught or
read to hate or harm another human.
And it perhaps suggests that Christians are
reading their Bibles for themselves and are not afraid to challenge what they regard
as false
teaching.
If,
as the Church had always
taught, the Bible contained God's revelation to man, every man (they urged) ought to be able to
read it for himself, and not to be dependent upon what might reach him by indirect channels.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women
teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated
as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist
reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a
reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
My training, academically speaking, is in logic and rhetoric, and having
taught first year college students I tend to
read everything
as though I'm grading.
These
teachings can be
read as being about divine love and salvation, sure.
I'm looking to eventually
teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive
reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward
as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.
Wright criticizes Reformers for failing to stress «the great narrative of God, Israel, Jesus, and the world, coming forward into our own day and looking ahead to the eventual renewal of all things» so that their
readings of the gospels «show little awareness of them
as anything other than repositories of dominical
teaching, concluding with the saving events of Good Friday and Easter but without integrating those events into the Kingdom - proclamation that preceded them.»
For us, to serve Christ is just
as much to feed the hungry, to
teach people to
read, and to help them in their struggle for justice,
as it is to baptize them.»
The
teachings were put into memorable «tales»
as you call them because most people didn't
read thousands of years ago — they were
teaching tools and they were never intended to be examined literally.
Wonderful teacher... get out your Bible and start
reading... this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing leading millions to an eternity in hell... the prosperity gospel he
teaches is contrary to the
teachings of Christ... Christ talked about abundance in life but he was speaking of spiritual abundance not material things... Scripture and Christ said in this life you will have trouble... Christ suffered in this life
as did each of his Apostles... open your eyes before it is too late for you.
But
as I've been
reading the Sermon on the Mount and the
teachings of Jesus, I'm beginning to realize that following these revolutionary
teachings would result in a different sort of salvation — salvation from myself.
I finished
reading The Shape of Sola Scriptura last week, and with his emphasis on creeds and the
teaching office of the church, it made me ask a few related questions
as the one above.
As for myself, I believe the Bible is 100 % accurate and true, but (if you have
read my blog or listened to my podcast for a while), I have a somewhat different approach to this belief than is commonly
taught.
But every now and then,
as I'm
reading through the Gospels and examining the life and
teaching of Jesus, I realize how often I rely on my nice, Southern charm to serve
as a sort of watered - down version of Christlikeness.
Reading literature
teaches them stories they can use
as it also
teaches them to see stories in everyday life.
Of course,
as you say, being the church is about so much more than just
reading,
teaching, or singing songs.
Anyone who has even studied the Bible in a cursory manner can see that Christ came to «fulfill, not abolish» (Mt. 5:17), and Christ
taught about a variety of things his followers should do; otherwise, the Gospels would have simply
read «The Torah is obsolete; go now, and live
as you please.»
As she continues to
read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false
teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.
And Jesus replied: «Yes, James, when you
read the Scriptures look for those eternally true and divinely beautiful
teachings, such
as:
According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (
reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (
read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible
as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible
as «just another book of
teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.
«Until we know the power of divine grace, we
read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who
teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such
as it has committed.
Every image has at least one minister (some more than one,
as in
teaching); but he is never alone if we
read beyond the cartoon itself.
Smith didn't like religion
taught so he went in the woods
as an angle gave him this Golden Plate Bible that only he could
read.
It is almost
as if evolutionists
read Genesis and decided that to turn people from their faith they would
teach that the exact opposite is true.
I
read a comment that the person said Islam
teaches «convert or be killed», which I find odd
as I have been married to a muslim for 6 years now and neither her or her family have taken me out yet.
Michael Zuckert,
as I've also said before, surely
teaches more truth about Locke than anyone else by
reading the account of personal identity in the ECHU into THE SECOND TREATISE and elsewhere.
In preparing to
teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first
taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter
as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was,
as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who
read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors
as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.
The idea that Catholic just war
teaching begins with a «presumption against war,» more recently phrased
as «a strong presumption against the use of force,» first appears in the United States bishops» widely
read 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace.
He
read what Whitehead had written
as physicist and said to himself and others, «This man should be
teaching philosophy.»
Because the your whims come of, to me,
as harsh and hate filled and comment of the supposed Christians that preach hate in miss direction, oh ya that is what Jesus
taught Read the Bible!
His
teaching method,
as I remember it, was simply to engage in reflective close
readings of the Shakespeare tragedies and comedies, delineating their rich texture of image and metaphor and opening up their complex central themes — moral, philosophical and religious.
Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's
teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism
as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world
as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»