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Sophia: Understanding the Question
This lesson focuses on how to understand a reading question; it details three main parts: look for content and process words, state the question in your own words, and restate the question as a statement. It explains each and provides...
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Sophia: Using Fragments Wisely
This lesson focuses on the intentional use of sentence fragments. It offers a YouTube video asking the viewer to spot the fragments, and a PowerPoint presentation listing 5 appropriate uses of fragments: to get the reader's attention, to...
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Sophia: Using Sentence Structure (Part of Speech)
This slideshow lesson focuses on using sentence structure and parts of speech to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It explains how to look for parentheses or commas after unfamiliar words to help determine meaning; it also shows...
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Sophia: Vocabulary Tip: Build Associations
This screencast discusses how building associations between words increases vocabulary. It provides several examples on building successful associations using roots, parts of speech, prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms. Real Player is...
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Sophia: Vocab Tip: Create a Sentence
This video lesson provides a tip to learn new vocabulary. Look up the word in online dictionary, and then create a short sentence using the word including context clues and a familiar topic. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Vocab Tip: Hear It Said Out Loud
This video lesson focuses on the strategy of hearing unfamiliar vocabulary said aloud. The advantages of hearing it said aloud include activating prior knowledge and the brain remembering it better. It offers ways to learn the...
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Sophia: Vocab Tip: Say It Out Loud
This video lesson offers a tip for learning new vocabulary words by saying the word and its definition aloud. This stimulates the brain and activates prior knowledge which helps you remember the word. It also covers what to do if you...
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Sophia: Vocabulary Words
This lesson focuses on the need to look up vocabulary words when given a list from an assigned reading to help better understand the text. It offers a literary example of such a list. This information is provided in text and in audio...
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Sophia: Western
This slideshow focuses on the American western genre; it provides background information, lists common elements, and provides a traditional and a modern example.
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Sophia: Professional Development: What Is the Flipped Classroom?
Part I of a four-part professional development tutorial on creating a flipped classroom. Become the commander of your classroom as you incorporate these new ideas and techniques into your teaching toolkit.
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Sophia: Physical Science: Work Tutorial
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing basic machines straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this brief tutorial. [1:11]
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Sophia: Wrangling Research, Apa Style
This tutorial focuses on using APA Style for research papers including the formating, documentation, and reasons for using it. It offers a YouTube video for finding the APA format template in Microsoft Word 2007 and information for...
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Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on topic sentences using two slideshows. The first defines topic sentences, discusses purpose and placement, and provides a sample thesis statement followed by accompanying topic sentences samples. The second...
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Sophia: Writing, Reading, and Understanding Poetry
This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...
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Sophia: A Brief History of English
This tutorial focuses on the historical development of the English Language; it provides an historical account of the effects of conquerors and immigrants on the English language beginning with the Celts in 500 BCE and continuing until...
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Sophia: Action/adventure
This slideshow focuses on the genre of action/adventure; it provides background information, common elements, a list of pop culture movies (made from books), three famous literary examples, and an excerpt from a fourth with commentary.
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on additive transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains what additive transitions do and when to use them, it provides a list of additive transition words and example...
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words
This lesson focuses on additive transition words; it defines transition words and lists the types of transitions. It explains additive transition words, offers a list of the most common ones, and provides example sentences showing how to...
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Sophia: Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses and relative pronouns; it discusses the purpose of adjective clauses and the three conditions required to be an adjective clause. It provides the two adjective clause formulas with...
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Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This slideshow focuses on adverb clauses; it reviews adverbs. It defines adverb clauses, explains how to create them using examples, and provides a list of subordinate conjunctions that often begin adverb clauses.
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Sophia: Engineering: Aircraft Carrier 1 Day Lesson
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the world of engineering straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive experiment.
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Sophia: Analogy
This slideshow focuses on analogy including defining it, discussing its purpose, and providing two literary examples. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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Sophia: Analytical Papers: Organization
This slideshow tutorial focuses on organizing an analytical paper; it defines analysis and outlines the basic five- paragraph essay format. It discusses what goes into the introduction, the body paragraphs, and the conclusion. It...
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Sophia: Analytical Papers
This lesson focuses on analytical papers; it explains how to analyze a subject and the goal of analytical papers. They must include a defined or specific perspective from which to evaluate, an evaluation, and the breakdown of the...