Sentences with phrase «with rich vocabulary»

Cityscapes, urban or fanatic landscapes evolve with a rich vocabulary of mark making, and embedded history of texture and surface.

Research on minke whale populations off the Queensland coast show they have a complex language with a rich vocabulary.

For example, elementary teachers might pick informational texts and stories with rich vocabulary as opportunities to learn new content and new vocabulary, along with careful attention to strategies that support learning the new words.

While babies may not speak their first word for a year, they are born ready to communicate with a rich vocabulary of body movements, cries and visual responses: all part of the complex language of infant behavior.

In Hebrews there are 4,942 words, with a rich vocabulary of 1,038 words.»

Continue to read your child books with predictable texts and familiar words, but also include those with a richer vocabulary and more complicated plots.

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But while the programs of the «Christ of culture» advocates are rich in the vocabulary of 19th century Christian evangelism, the images — and hence the real messages — resonate with The Technique, the gambits of modern television advertising.

Liberalism worked well in contexts where consensus already existed, where a rich moral vocabulary or vision of the good life was deeply embedded; but in a society with Berlin's negative conception of freedom at its center, there is no binding vision.

The organization works closely with families through home visits to help parents take on the role as a child's first teacher, Garcia said, encouraging «language - rich relationships» that build a child's vocabulary and processing abilities.

«Children with Williams syndrome have elaborate and rich vocabularies and use very descriptive, affect - rich expressive language, which makes their speech very engaging.»

People with depression have a much richer vocabulary for describing their anguish, one that rarely matches the clinical observations.

A self - centered, pop - cultured rich girl who hides her ditziness with a large vocabulary and of - the - moment slang, Cher tries to do some good for others for a change.

In a classroom where students are doing the majority of the talking, where they are engaged with each other in rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educational equity.

Celebrate the Chinese New Year in your classroom with this rich assortment of activities covering reading passage, fluency passage and chart, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, social studies (culture), and more.

Gillim, a former teacher and education media professional, developed the character and series with an explicit purpose to enrich young audiences» vocabulary, close the gap for those who don't grow up in language - rich environments, instill a love of language, and foster better reading comprehension.

Among these is the likelihood that, in the race to meet standards, schooling will be reduced to following schedules and scripts; that time spent with literature and rich language will be driven out by vocabulary workbooks; that learning science will become merely the memorization of a string of definitions of technical terms; in short, that American anti-intellectualism (on which I have more to say) will triumph in a haze of bean counting.

Vocabulary and oral comprehension abilities derive from rich oral interactions with adults that might occur spontaneously in conversations and during shared picture - book reading.

Obsessed with print - rich environments, they coat walls and surfaces with «a vertiginous array of labels, vocabulary lists, calendars, graphs...» that strike kids as white noise or senseless distraction.

Financial poverty often goes hand in hand with poverty of experience, and as well as the obvious educational value of the visits, children build a rich bank of experiences that fuel their imagination, build their self - confidence, raise their aspirations and enhance their vocabulary.

Language provides the foundation for the development of self - regulatory skills, enabling students to express themselves and negotiate interactions with others; the demands of these self - regulatory processes in turn can support the development of rich vocabulary and social language skills.

Both programs stressed the importance of high quality language interactions (back and forth conversations, shared book readings, and rich vocabulary), nutrition (prenatal and beyond), and healthy parenting strategies (feeding and sleeping routines, strategies to deal with misbehavior and so on).

Vocabulary games allow them to both read these words with definitions and hear the words pronounced in context - rich sentences.

Building a rich vocabulary will help students with reading comprehension and writing higher - quality essays to improve scores on the critical reading and writing components of the ACT and SAT exams.

Leisure reading immerses students in contextually rich uses of academic vocabulary within the larger contexts of effective and beautiful academic language that is acquired with minimal effort on the part of the reader.

While no single tool will provide students, particularly English language learners, with all the vocabulary knowledge they need, we hope WordSift can provide teachers and students with new ways of building the rich word knowledge necessary for academic success.

Our experience with Word Generation provides evidence that cross-content vocabulary instruction can provide rich word - learning opportunities, which translate into improved reading achievement.

Building a rich vocabulary helps students with reading comprehension and essay writing, which in turn improves scores on the critical reading and writing components of the ACT and SAT exams.

Learning starts with vocabulary and is continually enlarged by new and richer vocabulary.

With believable dialogue, vocabulary and imagery appropriate to time and place, and well - developed characters, this rich and rewarding first novel is «like sucking on a butterscotch.

For more on this remarkable book, read a review in BookPage, which asserts that Valente «writes beautifully with a rich and deep vocabulary that is every bit as enjoyable as the plot of the story.»

• Vocabulary — With words such as «gnarled,» «turret,» «refuge» and «flora,» this book is linguistically rich.

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They have a rich vocabulary that we're not using, and cats must think we're pretty stupid not to make the appropriate noises when we interact with them....

Zarina's vocabulary is minimal yet rich in associations with her life and the themes of displacement and exile.

A soaring tapestry dominated by a rich burgundy and interspersed with metallic fibers and tassel - like appliqués, it distills Judaic symbols — among them, the Star of David, the Tablets of The Law, and The Lion of Judah — through the pictographic vocabulary favored by Gottlieb at the time.

Drawing on a rich vocabulary of myth, history and symbol to create a singular lexicon, his work quickens our perceptions of the everyday, sharpening our dulled senses with an acute lens.

This is an artist with a rich technical vocabulary, unique vision and unsurpassed skill, who is just as comfortable working with unconventional materials such as glass tableware, thousands of dice stacked together to form fluid overlapping folds, found objects, and plastics, as he is with the more accepted media, such as perforated steel, wood or bronze.

Taylor's rich and varied visual vocabulary imbues his paintings with the allusion to another space, shifting illusively between known and unknowns, dreams and reality, abstract forms and flickers of recognisable beings.

Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer.

In 1980 Deen, moved to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts where the rich trappings of the California lifestyle coalesced with her own distinctive visual sensibilities to form a vocabulary that is both intimate and universal.

Keïta delvelops a rich aesthetic vocabulary through his portraits staged against painted backdrops juxtaposing the distinctively vibrant and boldly - patterned African fabrics with Western props like cars, radios, and sunglasses.

Like the great formalist painter Hans Hoffman, who taught his students to look at Rembrandt's light and dark shadows and replace them with corresponding colors, Ansel uses a rich palette and thick, gestural brushstrokes to translate these masterpieces into a contemporary vocabulary.

Many years of experimentation with a limited set of clay slip colours has yielded a rich vocabulary of tonal ranges, where decorative motif is not just the additional applied surface but becomes integral to the vessel form.