- Lessons and Quizes
- Games
- Glossary
- Resources
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Module 1: Reading Strategies and Skills
This module discusses reading strategies and skills, including setting a purpose, previewing, monitoring comprehension, questioning, connecting, summarizing, paraphrasing, identifying genre, inferring, and determining importance.
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Module 2: Plot and Characterization
This module discusses plot, including exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and subplot, as well as the effect of setting on characters and plot, and protagonist versus antagonist. Also discussed are characterization by traits, and making inferences about characters.
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Module 3: Literary Techniques
This module covers literary techniques, including what they are, as well as mood, tone, flashback, foreshadowing, point-of-view, allusion, and theme.
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Module 4: Poetry and Figurative Language
This module discusses the elements of poetry, figurative versus literal, rhyme, the forms and structure of poetry, alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, and metaphor.
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Module 5: Nonfiction
This module discusses nonfiction, including text features of nonfiction, how to distinguish fact from fiction, how to find the main idea and the details, and how to analyze evidence. Also covered are skimming and scanning, structures of nonfiction, subjective versus objective, and types of propaganda.
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Module 6: Vocabulary Building Strategies
This module discusses dictionary skills, synonyms, antonyms, words with multiple meanings, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Also covered are context clues, including introduction, definitions, synonyms, contrast, and examples. Further included are connotation and denotation.
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Module 7: Grammar – Working with Parts of Speech
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Module 8: Grammar – Sentence Construction and Agreement
This module discusses subjects and predicates, compound subjects and predicates, main and subordinate clauses, subject and verb agreement, subjects separated from verbs, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences, and parallelism.
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Module 9: Conventions
This module discusses conventions, including what they are, as well as apostrophes and ownership, tricky homophones, proper titles, semi-colons, how to punctuate dialogue, using the comma in direct address, and using commas in introductory clauses and phrases.
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Module 10: Argumentative Writing
This module discusses the writing process, elements of an argumentative essay, and choosing issues versus problems to write about. It further covers how to pre-write the essay, including choosing a topic, adding supporting details and reasons, researching your topic, and addressing reader concerns and counterarguments. Drafting the essay is presented, including writing a thesis, creating topic sentences and paragraphs, adding research to the body, and writing an introduction and a conclusion. Revising, including adding transition words and enhancing word choice, as well as editing, including using editing marks and finding editing errors, are also discussed, as well as how to create a final draft and how to make an effective presentation.
Course Features
- Lectures 100
- Quizzes 10
- Duration 20 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
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Module 1: Reading Strategies and Skills
This module discusses reading strategies and skills, including setting a purpose, previewing, monitoring comprehension, questioning, connecting, summarizing, paraphrasing, identifying genre, inferring, and determining importance.
-
Module 2: Plot and Characterization
This module discusses plot, including exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and subplot, as well as the effect of setting on characters and plot, and protagonist versus antagonist. Also discussed are characterization by traits, and making inferences about characters.
-
Module 3: Literary Techniques
This module covers literary techniques, including what they are, as well as mood, tone, flashback, foreshadowing, point-of-view, allusion, and theme.
-
Module 4: Poetry and Figurative Language
This module discusses the elements of poetry, figurative versus literal, rhyme, the forms and structure of poetry, alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, and metaphor.
-
Module 5: Nonfiction
This module discusses nonfiction, including text features of nonfiction, how to distinguish fact from fiction, how to find the main idea and the details, and how to analyze evidence. Also covered are skimming and scanning, structures of nonfiction, subjective versus objective, and types of propaganda.
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Module 6: Vocabulary Building Strategies
This module discusses dictionary skills, synonyms, antonyms, words with multiple meanings, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Also covered are context clues, including introduction, definitions, synonyms, contrast, and examples. Further included are connotation and denotation.
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Module 7: Grammar – Working with Parts of Speech
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Module 8: Grammar – Sentence Construction and Agreement
This module discusses subjects and predicates, compound subjects and predicates, main and subordinate clauses, subject and verb agreement, subjects separated from verbs, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences, and parallelism.
-
Module 9: Conventions
This module discusses conventions, including what they are, as well as apostrophes and ownership, tricky homophones, proper titles, semi-colons, how to punctuate dialogue, using the comma in direct address, and using commas in introductory clauses and phrases.
-
Module 10: Argumentative Writing
This module discusses the writing process, elements of an argumentative essay, and choosing issues versus problems to write about. It further covers how to pre-write the essay, including choosing a topic, adding supporting details and reasons, researching your topic, and addressing reader concerns and counterarguments. Drafting the essay is presented, including writing a thesis, creating topic sentences and paragraphs, adding research to the body, and writing an introduction and a conclusion. Revising, including adding transition words and enhancing word choice, as well as editing, including using editing marks and finding editing errors, are also discussed, as well as how to create a final draft and how to make an effective presentation.
