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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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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 Your Writing
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
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Sophia: Judging and Reacting: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the critical reading techniques of making judgments and forming reactions about what they read. Explanations are given about drawing conclusions, responding to literature, and making...
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Sophia: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
Notes introducing logos, pathos, and ethos and explaining how each appeal to an audience in a different way. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Magical Realism
A seven-slide presentation explaining and identifying the characteristics of the fictional genre of magical realism. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Making Connections & Applications: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of making connections. An explanation of the strategy is given, along with examples of how to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
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Sophia: Mla Bibliographies
A fourteen-slide presentation followed by a series of four videos demonstrating how to create a bibliography for various sources using MLA formatting.
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Sophia: Mla Bibliography: Book Sources
A seven-slide presentation explaining how to format several types of book sources in a bibliography using MLA style.
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Sophia: Mla Format: Long Quotes
A three page printable document of notes followed by a screencast lesson [4 mins, 47 secs] explaining how to format long and short quotations using the MLA style.
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Sophia: Mla Format: Short Quotes
Notes and examples that can be read or listened to explaining how to format short quotes following MLA format.
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Sophia: Mla Format: Short Quotes
A four-page printable document followed by a screencast lesson [5 mins, 17 secs] explaining how to format short quotations using MLA formatting.
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Sophia: Multiple Choice: Eliminating Extreme Choices: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different ways to eliminate poor choices that may be seen on multiple choice tests. Marking strategies to use during the process of elimination are included, along with examples of how to...
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Sophia: Note Taking Techniques
A five-slide presentation explaining techniques writers can use to take effective notes while gathering information for a research project. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
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Sophia: Note Taking: Word Selection
A screencast lesson [8:35] explaining how to determine which information is necessary and relevant when taking notes.
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Sophia: Omitting Words From Quotations
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a quote when part of the quote has been removed and replaced with an ellipsis. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.