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Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on topic sentences using two slideshows. The first defines topic sentences, discusses purpose and placement, and provides a sample thesis statement followed by accompanying topic sentences samples. The second...
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Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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Sophia: Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on topic sentences; it defines them, gives the characteristics of effective topic sentences, tells what they are NOT, discusses how to create them, and provides examples of effective topic sentences.
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Grammar Check: 20 Writing Mistakes Even Native Speakers Make (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This GrammarCheck infographic provides tips for fixing common writing mistakes. Information on errors related to homophones, apostrophes, commas, participles, and sentence structure are included.
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Grammar Check: Learn How to Write an Essay Like the Pros (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An infographic is provided to help students with writing essays. Explicit information about essay writing steps are included. Essay mistakes relative to the content and style are articulated, along with features specific to essays.
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Tes: Travel Writing Sow

For Students 4th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 100-slide PowerPoint presentation will guide students through a descriptive writing task. Students will be write extensive pieces about a travel experience.
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Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
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Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th
A twelve-slide presentation explaining run-on sentences and comma splices and providing five solutions to correcting these sentence errors.
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Sophia: Choppy Sentences: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses how to recognize and correct sentences that are choppy. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Choppy Sentences."
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Sophia: Clarity: Sentence Beginnings: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson goes over the importance of the first portion of a sentence.
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Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of notes and lessons focused on writing thesis statements and topic sentences. The lesson begins with a four-page downloadable PDF containing information about the function and form of a thesis statement as well as how to...
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Sophia: Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
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Sophia: Correcting Sentence Fragments: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson goes over how to identify and correct sentence fragments. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Correcting Sentence Fragments."
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Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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Sophia: Revising Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nine-slide presentation explaining how to use the acronym MAP (main idea, attitude, preview) to edit and revise a topic sentence.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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: Topic Sentence: Map It Out!

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Audience and Writing Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...
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Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.
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Sophia: Revising Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to edit a topic sentence to make it more effective.
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Sophia: Sentence Variety: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson discusses how to use variation in sentence structure to produce more effective writing.
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Sophia: Avoiding Run on Sentences and Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice.
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Sophia: Choppy Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to recognize and correct sentences that are choppy.
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Sophia: Clarity: Introductory Sentences: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over the importance of clarity in the first sentence of a paragraph.

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