"practical reading" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any form of reading that is intended to help the reader learn a practical skill or gain useful knowledge. For example: "The class focused on practical reading, offering students opportunities to learn real-world techniques they could apply in their own lives."
Couldn't teachers devise an activity that would use Shakespeare, perhaps in conjunction with other sources, and at the same time, teach these very practical reading and writing skills?
So despite the handiness of quick reference sites, mobile e-mail and GPS directions, getting real work done on tiny screens isn't very practical, reading long New Yorker articles sucks batteries and can burn out your eyes and though there are more handsets available now with decent cameras, most of those captured moments won't make much of an impression beyond the small screen.
Then after that, we were sent to the hospital and then do some, eh, practical reading on prescription and things like that.
To make a practical read head, the layers in the sensor stack will have to be two to three nanometers thick.
Passive tags have practical read distances ranging from about 2 mm up to about few metres depending on the chosen radio frequency.
But when they honored my friend of forty years, Roger Corman, last year, I was thrilled for him and Julie at the recognition of one of our industry's smartest and most practical (read: penurious) legends.
The delay of the WHO algorithm was difficult to evaluate because this guideline is mostly theoretical and gives no practical details: reading it seems simple, but to put it into practice is more complex and becomes impossible for several diagnoses, leaving a lot of freedom to the clinician.
There will be sessions and workshops on successful and practical classroom reading for pleasure strategies, poetry and engaging students with a diverse range of authors and texts from the English and Media Centre, The National Literacy Trust, teachers, librarians and educationalists.
The new material may change all that, offering the possibility of practical holographic read-only storage for the first time.
But even then scientists talked about it someday being possible to do it for $1,000, since that could make it practical to read out all your DNA for some routine medical care, the way MRI or CT scans are used now.
"Making Sense of Data is intended for anybody who works with data on a daily basis, such as students, teachers, journalists, and small business owners, and who wants to learn more about how to apply that information to practical problems," reads the blog.
