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Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words
A six-slide presentation introducing emphatic transition words and discusses their purpose and their use.
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Sophia: Evaluating the Connotation
This lesson focuses on evaluating the connotation of a vocabulary word. It defines connotation and gives an example. It details three steps: read the word in context, determine the tone of the overall reading, and compare the tone with...
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Sophia: Exclamation Points
Five slides introducing explanation marks and explaining how they can be used correctly within sentences.
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Sophia: Flashback
A seven-slide presentation introducing flashback and describing how to find it in a literary text. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Following Directions: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review basics regarding the following of directions on an assessment and/or reading comprehension test. Strategies related to looking for particular words and phrases in a testing situation are...
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Sophia: Foreshadowing
This tutorial uses a slide show focusing on foreshadowing. It defines foreshadowing, gives types of foreshadowing, prophecy, symbolism, and omen.
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Sophia: Formal Language
This slideshow lesson focuses on formal language. It reviews the basics of formal language and the need to know your audience. It explains how to change various types of informal language into formal language and provides examples....
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Sophia: Facts
An eight-slide presentation discussing why revision is important to the writing process and explaining steps that can be taken to begin revision.
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Sophia: Grammar: Sentence Components
This lesson focuses on sentence components. It provides a slideshow with each of the eight parts of speech plus articles; it defines each and gives examples using them in sentences. It also offers the lyrics to "The Grammar Song" in...
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Sophia: How to Choose Credible Sources
This tutorial focuses on choosing credible sources for a research project. It offers two versions of a slideshow: a non-audio slideshow and an audio slideshow which explains the information as it is shown. They each define terms, offer...
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Sophia: Humor in Writing
Eight slides introducing different types of humor in writing including irony, caricature, satire, wit, blunders, hyperbole, jokes, practical jokes, and puns.
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Sophia: Hyperbole
A five-slide presentation introducing hyperbole and explaining its use as a rhetorical device.
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Sophia: Hyphens
A video followed by a six-slide presentation introducing hyphens and discussing their purposes and proper usage. [2:27]
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Sophia: Hyphens
This slideshow lesson focuses on the uses of hyphens; it explains what they are and the uses of hyphens including in the following: numbers, adjectives, prefixes, and to clarify meaning. It also provides examples of each use and...
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Sophia: Hyphens
This multimedia tutorial focuses on hyphens; it defines hyphenation, lists uses, provides examples, discusses hyphenation errors, and provides a 7-sentence quiz in text format. It offers two YouTube videos: the first explains when to use...
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Sophia: Hyphens and Line Wrapping
This slideshow lesson focuses on hyphening words in line wrapping; it defines hyphens and line wrapping and gives the purpose of line wrapping. It explains where to place the hyphens, hyphenating rules for line wrapping, computer line...
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Sophia: Hypophora
A six-slide presentation introducing hypophora and explaining its use as a rhetorical device.
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Sophia: Identifying Knowledge Gaps: A Tutorial
In this tutorial slide presentation, students will learn steps to use to clarify unfamiliar content. The steps include the following: identifying what you do know, identifying what you do not know, and identifying where you can learn...
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Sophia: Identifying the Question Type
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the different types of reading comprehension questions. Examples of different question stems are provided.
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Sophia: Identifying the Subject
This lesson focuses on identifying the subject of sentences; it defines and discusses what a subject does. It explains how to locate the subject in various sentence constructions: subject-verb order, inverted sentences, passive voice,...
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Sophia: Identifying the Subject
This video lesson focuses on locating the subject in different sentence constructions such as passive voice, inverted sentences, and sentences where the subject is a complete clause. It provides examples and provides questions for the...
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Sophia: "i.e." vs. "e.g."
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of "i.e." and "e.g." including similarities and differences between them, the specific meanings of each, and how to use them in writing including the proper punctuation.
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Sophia: Imagining & Visualizing: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategies of imagining and visualizing to assist with interpreting stories' characters, events, and settings. Students are given an explanation of the strategies and examples...
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Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Writing
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to incorporate quotes into writing. It explains the rules for using quotation marks, discusses how writers use quotation marks, and explains quotation etiquette with examples of single quotations and...