Sentences with phrase «young readers how»

With masterful similes and a poet's sensitivity, she shows young readers how to listen and pay attention to the sights and sounds around them.

Both feature a diverse cast of characters, showing young readers how to reach out to the vast world around them.

It shows young readers how their brains work, what happens when they eat, how their lungs use oxygen and more.

Not exact matches

Four decades and 88 children's novels into his career, author Gordon Korman has learned how to keep his work fresh, exciting and fun — both for his young readers and for himself.

The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens.

Readers may recall a Medium post earlier this year by venture capitalist Hunter Walk, in which he described how interacting with Amazon's virtual assistant device Echo, which responds in a female voice to sharp commands addressed to the name «Alexa,» was teaching his young daughter bad manners.

Few younger readers will remember how popular hydrogen fuel cells were in the media a couple of decades ago.

Armed with the latest surveys, along with personal testimonies from friends and readers, I explain how young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be too political, too exclusive, old - fashioned, unconcerned with social justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

I Am Malala: How One Girls Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai — This is the young readers edition for Malala's best - selling memoir.

In it, the reader mentioned the fact that sometimes she felt insecure about her decision to pursue a family life before a career, explaining how challenging it can be to find time to write amidst the craziness of having young children at home.

Responding to feedback from one of our younger readers (see our March - April letters page) we continue the theme here, looking more closely at how we are saved by the death and resurrection of Christ, and the place of suffering in the economy of redemption.

He has published numerous books and articles for both professional and lay readers, including The Good Enough Child: How to Have an Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied and Family Centered Treatment with Struggling Young Adults.

It can't be easy to try to keep one eye on your blog and another on your young family, and I don't know if we, your readers, tell you often enough how much we appreciate your efforts.

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Like many young professionals, I was in a hurry to «prove» myself and would define success in how much readers admired my writing and how many possessions I could accumulate, how many friends I had, how many social gatherings I attended and how many vacations I took.

But a study at the University of Leicester suggests that young developing readers also have a similar understanding of how these outside letters can help make sense of words.

«New insights into how young and developing readers make sense of words.»

I think there is a certain sort of elegant beauty is such covers, but definitely see how they might not excite younger readers.

Rob: To be fair — and of course, I am not exactly sure how old Sean is — but there are a lot of younger readers out there.

«While most parents agree that reading is important in all areas of life, how to foster a love of reading and support their young readers remains a mystery,» writes Shaelynn Farnsworth (@shfarnsworth).

As the Chall visiting researcher, she will focus on how young children's understanding of text develops as they move from being emergent to competent readers.

Today in The Global Search for Education, our Top Global Teacher Bloggers share their answers to this month's question: How do we do a better job of cultivating young readers?

This month we look to answer the following highly controversial question «How do we do a better job of cultivating young readers?

It's 450 terrific teaching ideas that are based upon the latest research on how young children become good readers.

Learn more about how to help young readers succeed.

«I think introducing new texts which young school children are going to read demands great skill» (Clay, 1991) Participants will explore how rich introductions support children in becoming independent readers.

Our report, Improving Early Literacy in Colorado: Realizing the Promise of the READ Act, outlines specific recommendations to the Colorado Department of Education and the State Board of Education on how to improve early literacy in Colorado and support educators teaching young readers.

These six sparkling poetry books speak to young readers of all ages, addressing a symphony of subjects with creativity, humor and style.STARTING SMALLIn the introduction to Wee Rhymes: Baby's First Poetry Book, longtime collaborators Jane Yolen and artist Jane Dyer explain how vital poetry is: «Children who are given poetry early will have a fullness inside.

And I'm writing in young adult, a genre many authors feel is particularly frustrating (how do you reach teenage readers?).

The site primarily caters to romance and young adult readers, so if that's you I'd stop in fast and see how they can help your book.

How the concept of a book will change for young readers remains to be seen.

While many e-reading platforms aimed at the children's market focus solely on the younger reader content found in many interactive book apps, an unrivaled understanding of the children's book market and the technological know - how to market ebooks for a variety of devices and ages will both have a great deal to do with the expected success of Scholastic's electronic reading application.

At the same time, officials in Italy could not only track how much time an inmate spends interacting with an ebook using the same technology that parents and educators use for young readers, but they can also verify the user's annotations, highlights, or comments before assigning credit for having read the book.

Young readers, no matter how small, will enjoy seeing just how big the gift of love can be, as well as their own ability to give it.

BKL: You've written several different kinds of books for young readers, including fiction and nonfiction, so how did you first gravitate to the biography - in - verse form?

The group introduced themselves and talked about the power that comics had on them, writing for Young Adults, they discussed the differences between the bookstore and direct market for YA books, where to shelve books in stores and libraries, Adult readers of YA books, inspiring kids to read and write, how they decide what content is too adult for YA books and what backlash they've received and the digital market for YA books.

The shift from straightforward young adult romance to a more intense story of intolerance and hatred may seem abrupt or even jarring to many readers, but in the end, this backdrop helps provide context for Maya's personal conflicts and illustrate how her particular struggles are both universal and also specific to her identity as a young American Muslim woman of Indian descent.

''... the darkest and most unsettling installment yet... It is a novel that pulls together dozens of plot strands from previous volumes, underscoring how cleverly and carefully J. K. Rowling has assembled this giant jigsaw puzzle of an epic» - The New York Times «Rowling shepherds her hero's arduous trek to maturity with her customary grace and good humor, though she has infused her story with more bone - cracking and blood - spattering than may be tolerable for many of the young readers who have followed Harry's adventures so far.»

A young Parisian girl commissions her pet rabbit's portrait and meets four eccentric painters, each expressing their own suggestion about how to proceed (knowledgeable readers will easily recognize each impressionist and their style).

Reading Berne's carefully chosen stories of Albert's childhood, the young reader begins to understand how this quiet boy became one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.

If that book opened my eyes to the inequality women faced, my most recent nonfiction book, A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country, published by Abrams Books for Young Readers in 2014, reminded me of the long and difficult struggle endured by the diverse and inspiring women who hammered down the doors of inequality in Congress.

That was all she knew, and I agree with cherylk, that as a reader, I would picture Granada as older, and it was only when a reference was made to her numerical age, that it reminded me how young she was.

By weaving the stories of twelve young Germans into the larger fabric of Nazism and World War II, Bartoletti raises awareness of Hitler's manipulations to a new level and offers readers an opportunity to consider how they might have acted in the same situation.

11/14 Young Readers Day — This is fantastic, if you don't write children's books then encourage your fans to share tips for how to incorporate more reading into kids» lives.

This holiday season, there is a wide selection of unique and endearing Christmas books for young readers to choose from, with stories ranging from the timeless retelling of the birth of Christ to how one special little mouse celebrates the holidays.

Jet Plane: How It Works introduces young readers to all aspects of jets and the elements necessary for flight, from the pilot to the engine to the landing.

The primary difference is the ability for parents to receive metrics that explain dynamics such as how long their children spent interacting with a specific title, how the young readers fared on the extras like finding words embedded in the text, and at what level based on the Common Core standards (adopted in 42 states so far) their children are selecting books.

Also, kid versions of adult books are nothing new — everyone from Glenn Beck (The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book) to Al Gore (Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis, Young Reader's Edition) to Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time) seems to be doing it.

Taking her story all the way to childhood is an evocative way for young readers to understand how each stage of her life developed.

12:15 — 1:05 PM Thurs, Oct 4, 2012 Grand Ballroom B The Popularity of YA Books panel — How do authors appeal to young readers and keep them interested in reading?