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  2. Learning styles - Wikipedia

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    In his 2009 book Why Don't Students Like School, [63] he claimed that a cognitive styles theory must have three features: "it should consistently attribute to a person the same style, it should show that people with different abilities think and learn differently, and it should show that people with different styles do not, on average, differ ...

  3. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Wikipedia

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    The book was also reviewed in a monthly magazine Observer, published by the Association for Psychological Science. [47] [further explanation needed] The book has achieved a large following among baseball scouts and baseball executives. The ways of thinking described in the book are believed to help scouts, who have to make major judgements off ...

  4. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    A story is composed of a plot, characters, setting, point of view, and theme. Informational books provide real-world knowledge for students and have unique features such as: headings, maps, vocabulary, and an index. Poems are written in different forms and the most commonly used are: rhymed verse, haikus, free verse, and narratives.

  5. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  6. Skill - Wikipedia

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    Skills can often [quantify] be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. Some examples of general skills include time management, teamwork [3] and leadership, [4] and self-motivation. [5] In contrast, domain-specific skills would be used only for a certain job, e.g. operating a sand blaster. Skill usually requires certain ...

  7. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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    Provides a style standard for technical documentation including use of terminology, conventions, procedure, design treatments, and punctuation and grammar usage. Before 2018, Microsoft published a book, the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications. MongoDB documentation style guide, published by MongoDB. [22]

  8. Emergent literacies - Wikipedia

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    Specific and explicit phonological awareness instruction is the most effective way for children to learn. [16] This is when a teacher will teach the different skills directly to the students versus incorporating them into the literacy instruction but not directly teaching them. For example, teachers can read lots of rhyming books like (Hop on ...

  9. Tacit knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Nonaka's view may be contrasted with Polanyi's original view of "tacit knowing". Polanyi believed that while declarative knowledge may be needed for acquiring skills, it is unnecessary for using those skills once the novice becomes an expert. Indeed, it does seem to be the case that, as Polanyi argued, when people acquire a skill, they acquire ...