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Sophia: The Question Mark
This slideshow lesson discusses the question mark: its purpose, rules and examples for its use, and common errors in usage.
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Sophia: The Simple Future
This slideshow lesson focuses on the simple future verb tense; it provides background about verb tenses, defines simple future, offers examples, and alerts the reader about the use of contractions, such as I'll for I will.
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Sophia: The Simple Future
This lesson focuses on the simple future verb tense; it defines it, explains how it is formed, and provides sentences for students to practice identifying simple future verb with answers that follow.
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Sophia: The Simple Past
Nine slides introducing the simple past verb tense and providing examples of both regular and irregular simple past tense verb conjugation.
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Sophia: Title Format
A nine-slide presentation explaining how to format the titles within a text. Formatting examples include the titles of books, articles, poems, short stories, films, and plays.
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Sophia: Topic Sentence: Map It Out!
An eight-slide presentation introducing how to write a strong topic sentence by using the acronym MAP (main idea, attitude, preview).
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Sophia: Transitioning Topics Effectively
A seven-slide presentation that reviews transitions and discusses how to use them to move from one idea to the next.
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Sophia: Transition Words
Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
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Sophia: Transition Words
A variety of presentation formats including notes, a PowerPoint presentation, exercises, a game, and a video [1:46] explaining transition words and their function as well as providing examples of transition words to be used for specific...
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Sophia: Understatement
A four-slide document introducing understatement and explaining how it can be used as a rhetorical device.
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Sophia: Verbs
This video lesson focuses on verbs, their functions in sentences, and the 10 most common verbs. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Verbs
This video lesson focuses on verbs: action, linking, and helping. It defines each, explains how they work in a sentence, and how to identify them. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Verb Tenses
This slideshow lesson focuses on 12 verb tenses by providing background and examples of each. The 12 verb tenses are as follows: present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past, past continuous, past...
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Sophia: Verb Tenses
This video is a lesson on all 12 verb tenses using graphic organizers.
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Sophia: Vocab Tip: Test Yourself
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 30 secs] explaining how students can learn new vocabulary words by testing themselves over the words to discover what they know and what they need to know.
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Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
Ten slides discussing the elements of a topic sentence and explaining how to write an effective topic sentence by using the acronym MAP (Main idea, Attitude, Preview).
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Sophia: Your Turn Ad
In this persuasive media lesson, students will engage in viewing a Trix cereal advertisement and then engage in the process of "deconstruction" to analyze the use of propaganda techniques to attract customers. Then students will choose...
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Sophia: A Article, an Article, or the Article. . . Which to Use?
This lesson explains what articles are, how they function in a sentence, and how to determine correct article usage. It includes 4 videos about what articles are, how they function, definite, and indefinite articles and how to use them...
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Sophia: Abbreviations
Seven slides explaining the rules of using abbreviations properly in formal writing.
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Sophia: Abbreviations
A fifteen-slide presentation discussing the proper rules, usage, and punctuation of abbreviations. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Adding Words to Quotations
A seven-slide presentation explaining how to make minor additions or changes to a quotation in order to make it fit properly into a new text. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words
Six slides explaining how to use additive transition words to connect, or add, one idea to another to increase fluency. Examples are provided in a chart and within various types of sentences.
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Sophia: Adjective Clause
This lesson focuses on adjective clauses; it defines adjective, clause, and adjective clause. It explains the function of adjective clauses, how they are formed using relative pronouns or adjectives, how to identify them in a sentence,...
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Sophia: Adjective Clauses
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses including defining them, listing the three requirements for them, providing the adjective clause formula, discussing placement and essential vs. non-essential, explaining how to...