Example sentences of "children 's [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | How frequently does children 's enjoyment of school feature in discussion at staff or governor 's meetings ? |
| 2 | In the light of this , and with an awareness of the youngest children 's enjoyment of sounds and rhythms and the early emergence of musical talent , it is regrettable that music receives little attention here . |
| 3 | The teacher does not allow the ‘ unnatural ’ pursuit of any mathematical ideas to spoil the children 's enjoyment of the activity . |
| 4 | This special pleading is , no doubt , partly emotional but it might very well include reference to children 's lack of knowledge and understanding . |
| 5 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 6 | For Jarvefelt , opera needed to be illustrated like a children 's story-book of fables . |
| 7 | To some extent , of course , these other agencies are often filtered through the family and evaluated by the parents on behalf of the children : the mother may ‘ censor ’ the amount and kind of television that enters the home , or parents may discourage , with varying degrees of subtlety , their children 's choice of certain ‘ undesirable ’ friends . |
| 8 | The 1956 vintage of the independent left was one of extraordinary potential , numbering many thousands of experienced cadres from the Communist Party crisis , hundreds of Labour lefts bursting from their party prison , contingents of determined and defiant pacifists and , within a short while the Children 's Crusade of teenagers from all classes . |
| 9 | We also noted that children 's interpretation of sentences can be improved by presenting a preceding context which serves to inform the child about the kind of meaning that a sentence will contain . |
| 10 | They begin to discover a rationale for selecting and using information books , and they select a number of these to support children 's development of a ‘ topic ’ theme . |
| 11 | Music 's potential contribution to the debate and to children 's development of musical concepts and skills has as yet not been researched thoroughly . |
| 12 | Like the TACL , this test ( Bishop 1982 ) is designed to measure children 's comprehension of a range of grammatical devices . |
| 13 | Studies of children 's comprehension of causal connectives have tended to concentrate on the empirical mode . |
| 14 | In Chapter 3 , we saw that children 's comprehension of difficult sentences is similarly influenced by their knowledge of what kinds of events are likely , and we suggested that this kind of non-linguistic knowledge plays an important role in language acquisition . |
| 15 | Dewart ( 1975 ) showed that young children 's comprehension of a sentence like The duck is bitten by the monkey was facilitated by the provision of an appropriate context ( poor duck ) , in comparison with their level of performance when the context was inappropriate ( poor monkey ) . |
| 16 | The research project will focus on children 's comprehension of pretence . |
| 17 | Children 's comprehension of text |
| 18 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
| 19 | This theme is echoed by the discrepancy in results between experimental and observational studies of children 's knowledge of causal connectives . |
| 20 | This project focuses on recent findings that in particular , preschool children 's knowledge of nursery rhymes is a very good predictor of their success in learning to read . |
| 21 | One reason for this is that reading development is normally closely related to children 's knowledge of spoken language . |
| 22 | In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton . |
| 23 | For Chomsky ( 1965 ) and McNeill ( 1970 ) the problem posed by children 's mastery of language was how such inexperienced and , in other respects , immature human beings could learn to speak in accordance with the rules of grammar . |
| 24 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 25 | The text is usually artificial and detached from children 's experience of spoken language , since readability criteria are based on frequent repetition of words , short sentences , and a very limited vocabulary . |
| 26 | He said the children 's history of abuse and separation made it hard for them to trust anyone . |
| 27 | Sports sponsorship by tobacco companies and particularly the televising of sponsored events increases children 's awareness of the brands [ 7 ] and those children with favourite advertisements have been shown to have more positive views on smoking than those without . |
| 28 | In his chapter on children 's awareness , Robert Grieve concentrates on children 's awareness of language , and focuses attention on what appears to be an elementary question : when do children become aware of language ? |
| 29 | We did n't see these worksheets as just to be doled out , but as positive steps to increasing children 's awareness of the library and how to use it . |
| 30 | Based on the school environment , the packs aim to raise children 's awareness of environmental issues . |