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SAT and ACT Reading Comprehension: Using Sentence Context to Identify Meaning 300 300 School Tutoring

SAT and ACT Reading Comprehension: Using Sentence Context to Identify Meaning

Overview:  Sentence Context Adds Power Skilled readers use the powerful tool of sentence context to approximate the meaning of unfamiliar words, when the meaning is not apparent from prefixes, roots, and suffixes.  It is a largely unconscious process, and can help students taking the SAT, ACT, or other tests choose the correct answer from alternatives. …

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SchoolTutoring Reviews: Basics of Heredity 150 150 Deborah

SchoolTutoring Reviews: Basics of Heredity

Overview:  What Were Mendel’s Experiments? Mendel conducted  experiments with simple garden pea plants in order to study plant breeding.  His experiments were so successful because the plants grew quickly and self-pollinated, ensuring that traits would “breed true” and appear rapidly in successive generations. He kept careful and systematic records, and studied traits that had obvious…

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Identifying Fact and Opinion in Reading Passages 150 150 Deborah

Identifying Fact and Opinion in Reading Passages

Overview:  Fact or Opinion In order to read effectively in middle and high school, students must be able to identify and comprehend which statements are fact, and  which are  opinion.  This is an essential part of understanding the meaning of the passage, whether it is read as part of an assignment in school or in…

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Types of Writing in the Workplace 150 150 Deborah

Types of Writing in the Workplace

Overview:  Writing Is Practical Workplace writing is the most common type of writing outside of school.  It is directed toward specific results, communicating in ways that are clear, direct, and brief.  Workplace writing takes different forms, from formal business letters, meeting minutes, and applications, to brief messages, emails, narratives, and added text to letters. Business…

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Comprehension Review: Interpreting Graphs and Charts 150 150 Deborah

Comprehension Review: Interpreting Graphs and Charts

Overview:  What Do Graphs and Charts Do When Added to Text? Graphs and charts present information in order to clarify and extend text.  They are an important tool accompanying science writing, and  summarize essential  facts in the social sciences, history, and economics.  They serve as an aid to analysis and comprehension by presenting a visual…

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Verb Usage, Verb Agreement, and Verb Tense in Review 275 183 School Tutoring

Verb Usage, Verb Agreement, and Verb Tense in Review

Verbs in Review Verbs carry action in sentences, as well as state of being and existence.  In order to use them correctly, it is important for subjects and verbs to agree  in number, so that a singular subject is paired with a singular verb and a plural subject with a plural verb.  In addition, verb…

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How to Read Math Questions on the SAT and ACT 490 351 School Tutoring

How to Read Math Questions on the SAT and ACT

Overview: A Different Style of Reading Reading math questions on the SAT and ACT takes special attention to exact detail, following directions precisely, and watching for key words.  It is a different type of reading than students usually do in other sections of the test, such as reading comprehension or vocabulary sections.  The “plot” of…

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SchoolTutoring.com Reviews Adjectives and Adverbs 150 150 Deborah

SchoolTutoring.com Reviews Adjectives and Adverbs

Overview:  Why Modifiers? If sentences consisted of only nouns and verbs, they would be telegraphic and lack color and specific information.  Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, and adverbs modify verbs, other adverbs, and adjectives.  They make writing more vivid and more clear.  While choosing the right word may be the difference between lightning and the…

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Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary 150 150 Deborah

Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary

Overview:  Parts of Words Are Clues to Meaning Unfamiliar words often have clues to their meaning built into them.  Prefixes, suffixes, and roots generally have the same or similar meanings across many different words, so they can be used to build vocabulary. The reader can use those meanings to break apart words, along with context…

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Using Math Proportions on the SAT and ACT 275 183 School Tutoring

Using Math Proportions on the SAT and ACT

Overview:  Why Proportions? Solving proportions is an important math skill, both on tests and in everyday life.  In addition, understanding proportions is critical in the sciences, as elements exist in varying quantities in compounds and mixtures.  Understanding proportions within populations and how they work can also be essential as part of statistical analysis in social…

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