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Sophia: Apostrophes: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, the punctuation topic of "the apostrophe" is reviewed. Each slide provides a different purpose for using an apostrophe.
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Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
Six slides introducing apostrophes and how they can be used properly with singular and plural nouns to show possession.
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Sophia: Appropriate Language
Students can learn how to use language appropriately through these notes on pretentious language, nine presentation slides on using jargon, eleven presentation slides on cliches in writing, and a video also about cliches. [2:00]
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Sophia: Articles
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 52 secs] introducing articles and their proper usage and providing examples of articles functioning within sentences.
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Sophia: Asyndeton & Polysyndeton
A screencast lesson [4 mins, 28 secs] defining and providing examples of asyndeton and polysyndeton and discussing their purpose in sentences.
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Sophia: Auxiliary Verbs
This slideshow lesson focuses on auxiliary verbs including the definition, examples, and purposes.
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Sophia: Beginning Sentences With "But", "And", or "Because"
A screencast lesson [7 mins, 41 secs] explaining when it is and is not appropriate to begin a sentence with the a conjunction.
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Sophia: Bias
Notes introducing bias and demonstrating how to identify slight, moderate, and strong bias in a text. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverb
An eight-slide presentation explaining semicolons, their usage rules, and how they are properly used in sentences with conjunctive adverbs. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause
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Sophia: Capitalization in Quotations
A six-slide presentation explaining capitalization rules for words inside quotation marks. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Capitalization in Title
Six slides explaining how capitalization is used properly in titles including books, essays, articles, movies, and people.
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Sophia: Active Listening
This tutorial focuses on active listening including what it is and how to become an active listener; a slide show provides the five basic elements of listening. It also offers a video of Alice Walker reading Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a...
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Sophia: Phrases
A screencast lesson [3:38] defining a phrase, introducing different types of phrases, and explaining how to recognize phrases within sentences.
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Sophia: Pronouns
Ten slides introducing pronouns, antecedents, and how they are used in first, second, and third person narration. Examples are provided through sentences and pronoun charts.
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Sophia: Dialoguing With the Author: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of questioning the author, also referred to as "dialoguing" with the author. The "dialoguing with author" strategy is explained, and examples of how to use the...
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Sophia: The Impact of Rhetorical Devices
This slideshow focuses on the impact of rhetorical devices and how they impact text. It explains eight common rhetorical devices: anaphora, asyndeton, chiasmus, direct address, hyperbaton, parallelism, polysyndeton, and rhetorical...
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Sophia: Making Predictions
Notes on using the reading strategy of making predictions before and during reading to increase comprehension. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Writing for an Audience
A seven-slide presentation discussing the importance of writing to an audience in order to establish tone, strengthen word choice, and determine what supporting details to include.
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Sophia: Sentence Length and Style
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence length and style; it lists four types of sentences: fragments, short sentences, long sentences, and run-ons. It explains the effect that is achieved by using each of these sentence types for...
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Sophia: Commas With Numbers, People, and Places
This tutorial focuses on comma usage with numbers, people, and places. It offers a video detailing rules and examples and a slide show with the same information. Real Player is required for the video.
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Sophia: Commonly Misused Words
This audio lesson discusses some commonly misused words. The author provides a "cheat sheet" to define the differences in the commonly misused words. Examples of the correct applications of the words are also provided for further...
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Sophia: Unclear Pronoun References
A screencast lesson [4 mins, 18 secs] explaining unclear, ambiguous, vague, and indefinite pronouns as well as how to avoid them while writing.
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Sophia: Capitalization With Quotations
Seven slides explaining how to properly use capitalization in quotes. Rules and example sentences are provided.
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Sophia: Adjectives 2
This lesson focuses on adjectives and the rules for changing them to comparative and superlative forms. It offers textual information about adjectives and practice adding them to sentences. It also provides two YouTube videos: the first...