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Voicethread
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- A picture is worth more than a thousands words when you combine words and sound. Photos are a wonderful way for people to connect. Adding voice, sound (music), and text to ph...
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- Ask The Experts Forms of Nouns A noun is a person, place or thing! Check out this Schoolhouse Rock video below! Singular and Plural NounsA sin...
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Syllable Stress
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- What is a Syllable?A syllable is unit of sound made from a single vowel, or single vowel/consonant combination – note that syllables never have more then one vowel sound in them...
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The Last Spin by Evan Hunter
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- The Last Spin: A Short Story by Evan HunterA Lesson PlanTitle – The Last Spin By – Nellie Deutsch Primary Subject – Language Arts Secondary Subjects – C...
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- How Do We Promote Higher Level Thinking Today?It’s one thing for educators to teach to tests that offer learners certification that proves they’ve mastered key facts...
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- I’m having a provocative dialogue with a LearnHub colleague about what constitutes an online “lesson,” what constitutes a “discussion” or a “...
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- To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation. While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by oth...
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- Ask The Experts Types of Nouns You know by now that a noun is a word – a word that is a person, place, thing, or idea. Let’s take a closer look at nouns and th...
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TOEFL iBT in Depth: Reading
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- This lesson will cover the types of questions you will encounter on the Reading section of the TOEFL iBT test, as well as strategies you can use to improve your score in this se...
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Common Grammar Errors
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- Ask The Experts 1. You’re and Your You’re: Meaning you are. Used as a contraction in a sense of saying something about someone else in most cases.Exam...
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More Common Grammar Errors
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- Ask The Experts Grammar Mistakes: They get the best of us, including even more confusion to be had! Nothing as simple as the commonly mistaken &#...
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- If the whole idea of intellectual property and fair use makes your head hurt, join the club.It makes my head hurt, too. I want to get credit for the ideas I contribute to the gl...
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Commonly Mistaken "C" Words
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- Ask The Experts C is for Cookie… But that doesn’t seem to be good enough for me, at least not when it comes to mistakenly spelling words that begin with C! S...
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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- Ask The Experts The tomato was florescent orange For starters, in the sentence above, “orange” is an adjective that modifies the noun “tomato”...
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- Ask The Experts Possessive Nouns Adam’s backpack.Possessive nouns express ownership or show a relationship. For example, the nou...
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TOEFL - The Basics
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- TOE – What? TOEFL stands for Test of English as Foreign Language and is used to measure one’s English language proficiency. The test was developed by the ETS ...
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- Ask The Experts Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language.Tenses cannot always be translated from...
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essay writting topics
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- <!—[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <—[if gte mso 9]> <—...
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- A few frequently fumbled factoids forming first with F Although there aren’t as many words in the “F” category as we’ve seen in other example...
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- Ask The Experts In most nonscientific writing situations, active voice is preferable to passive for the majority of your sentences.Even i...
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- Listening to Mark Cruthers’ talk about his experience teaching AP History online to a group of homeschoolers, what comes up for you?(If you haven’t yet heard this in...
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- Ask The Experts Learning The Nine Types of Pronouns Part I Understanding and using pronouns correctly can be a challenge because of their many categories, functions, and c...
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A Closer Look at Adjectives
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- Ask The Experts A Closer Look at Adjectives In grammar, an adjective is a word which modifies a noun or a pronoun. An adjective is a word which provides more information about...
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A Closer Look at Verbs
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- Ask The Experts The two fundamental parts of every English sentence are the subject and the predicate. A simple sentence can also be desc...
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What is a WebQuest?
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- A WebQuest is an inquiry-based activity in which the information comes from resources on the Internet (Dodge, 1995). The WebQuest consists of at least 6 major parts; introductio...
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- <!-StartFragment-> <span style=”font-size:26.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Antique Olive Compact"; color:purple”>PERSUASIVE LETT...
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"The" and "A/an"
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- Ask The Experts Everything You Need to Know About Test Prep Lesson Summary:Why Would You Take a Test?How Do Colleges Use Tests?Which Test Should...
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EFL/ESL Lesson Plans
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- The following lesson plans integrate technology in the EFL/ESL and main stream classroom. You are free to use them as long as you give credit to Nellie Deutsch. A lesson plan...
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TOEFL Overview
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