Sophia Learning
Sophia: Word With Multiple Meanings
This lesson focuses on determining the correct meaning of a word with multiple meanings. First it explains why words in English have multiple meanings. Then using the word "bear," it provides steps and examples for how to determine the...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Using Footnotes in a Text
In this lesson, you will learn to figure out meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases by using footnotes. [4:28]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Prepositional Phrases to Convey Specific Meaning
Writers use prepositional phrases to convey specific meaning. Let's practice adding prepositional phrases to our sentences. [7:11]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is a Sentence?
A sentence is a grammatically complete idea. All sentences have a noun or pronoun component called the subject, and a verb part called the predicate. David and Paige explore this division across several different example sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phrases and Clauses
A phrase is any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech, like a noun phrase ("my brother Stu"), an adjectival phrase ("in a different shade of blue"), or an adverbial phrase ("with elegance and tact"). A clause is any noun...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Synonym Context Clues
This screencast lesson introduces synonym context clues. [2:32]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Synonym Substitution
This lesson explains how to substitute the synonym to check that the guessed meaning of unknown vocabulary is correct. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [2:15]