A citation, or reference, is a line of text that uniquely identifies a source

Use dialogue to enliven your writing. But unless you know the many rules of punctuating dialogue, you'll be creating a mess. This tutorial (part 1 of 2) will teach you all you need to know about the thrilling world of punctuating dialogue.

In this video lesson, Mr. Donnelly will be explaining writing plot. This lesson is aligned to the Common Core ELA for third grade.

The colon also known as a dot-point, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.

In this video, I show you how to use the skim-and-scan prereading strategy to make text predictions about he main idea and supporting ideas in a selection, how to use the Main Ideas and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer, and finally, how to use the graphic organizer to write a summary.

This lesson teaches students how to recognize and fix sentence fragments and run-ons. There are also student notes to be completed during the lesson, a homework assignment, and a quiz.

Long O is the vowel length that is perceived during a vowel sound

A group of words that share a common base

In this video lesson Mr. Donnelly will be explaining suffixes.

In this video lesson Mr. Donnelly will be explaining poetry through examples and discussion. Poetry is an art form in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content.

When irregular nouns change from their singular form to become plural, their spelling changes, in a different way than regular plural words.

Historical Fiction is a literary genre which is set in the past with real events in history, but is altered or modified with fictional events for the readers entertainment