Curated Video
Bringing Your Writing to Life: Adding Dialogue
In this video lesson, the teacher explains the importance of adding dialogue to bring writing drafts to life. They review the five steps of the writing process and focus on the fifth step of revising. The teacher provides examples and...
Curated OER
Quotation Marks
Take just 54 seconds to remind your students how to use quotation marks with this short video. A student narrates information about quotes.
Curated OER
How to Use Quotation Marks
Quotation marks are an important tool in writing. Teach your students how to properly use them with this informative video.
Curated OER
English Grammar & Writing - Capitalization
Go over the basics of capitalization and when to use upper-case letters. A young woman with a whiteboard writes examples and explains. This is a good resource for ELL or ELD students due to its simplicity. One grammatical mistake is made...
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: "Hi, Bob!" Punctuation and the Vocative
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to punctuate a direct address.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Avoiding Plagiarism
This tutorial focuses on plagiarism and how to avoid it. It defines plagiarism, explains intentional and unintentional plagiarism and gives examples of both, and discusses how to avoid it by using citations, quotation marks, paraphrase,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations
This video lesson explains how to use single quotation marks around quotations within quotations or titles within quotations. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Title Format
This lesson focuses on how to format titles in writing; the three basic formats are italics, underlining (when italics are not available), and quotation marks. It provides a chart listing titles that require italics such as books and...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Quotation Marks Correctly: Citing Speech
Learn how to use quotation marks when citing speech. [6:38]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using Quotation Marks in Titles
This video tutorial explains when to use quotation marks in titles.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Key Word Internet and Database Searches: Lesson 2
This slide show tutorial shows how to perform key word searches and narrow the search. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Key Word Internet and Database Searches."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Key Word Internet and Database Searches: Lesson 3
This screencast tutorial shows how to narrow key word searches and search engine tricks. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Key Word Internet and Database Searches." [8:54]
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: What Are Quotation Marks?
Video provides students with an explanation of quotation marks.