English and Grammar

Deborah
May 27, 2015
No Comments

English Review: Beyond the Essay Introduction

English Review: Beyond the Essay Introduction https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 27, 2015 May 27, 2015

Overview The draft outline has been written, a tentative thesis statement has been formed, and a provisional introduction is on the page. The computer cursor is blinking, but at least…

Deborah
May 24, 2015
No Comments

English Review: Writing an Essay Introduction

English Review: Writing an Essay Introduction https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 24, 2015 May 25, 2015

Overview Writing the introduction to an essay can be a confusing process. Students have to decide whether to explain why the topic is important, provide background or description, or just…

Deborah
May 14, 2015
No Comments

English Review of Outlining the Essay

English Review of Outlining the Essay https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 14, 2015 May 14, 2015

Overview Writing an outline is an important step to ensure structure in a finished essay. Some writers choose to form a firm thesis statement before they write the first…

Deborah
May 10, 2015
No Comments

English Review of Prewriting the Essay

English Review of Prewriting the Essay https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 10, 2015 May 11, 2015

Overview Sometimes, the most difficult part of writing an essay is getting past the first few sentences or even the first few words. The blank page or the blinking cursor…

Deborah
October 9, 2013
1,258 Comments

Back-to-School Review of Apostrophes

Back-to-School Review of Apostrophes https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 9, 2013 December 2, 2014

Overview: Apostrophes are used to form contractions and possessives. They denote missing letters in contractions, and who possesses the object in possessives. Many possessives have homonyms, so it is important…

Deborah
October 9, 2013
1,238 Comments

Review of Capitalization

Review of Capitalization https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 9, 2013 December 2, 2014

Overview: Capitalizing words within a sentence or title alerts readers to the importance of those words. Besides the first word beginning a sentence, proper nouns, special events, some awards, specific…

Deborah
October 6, 2013
1,386 Comments

Back-to-School Spelling Review of Plurals

Back-to-School Spelling Review of Plurals https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 6, 2013 December 2, 2014

Overview: Most plurals are regular and formed by adding -s or -es. However, other words, such as child, have irregular plural forms. A few words, such as deer and sheep,…

Deborah
August 29, 2013
1,436 Comments

Back-to-School Review: Use of Commas

Back-to-School Review: Use of Commas https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 29, 2013 December 2, 2014

Overview: Commas are one of the most common forms of punctuation inside sentences. They separate words and phrases that occur in a series, between cities and states, between states and countries,…

Deborah
July 3, 2013
1,569 Comments

Identifying Fact and Opinion in Reading Passages

Identifying Fact and Opinion in Reading Passages https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 3, 2013 December 2, 2014

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. …

Deborah
July 2, 2013
1,212 Comments

Types of Writing in the Workplace

Types of Writing in the Workplace https://schooltutoring.com/scholarship/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Deborah Deborah https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63fb4ad5c163b8f83de2f54371b9e040?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 2, 2013 December 2, 2014

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…

English Review: Beyond the Essay Introduction

English Review: Writing an Essay Introduction

English Review of Outlining the Essay

English Review of Prewriting the Essay

Back-to-School Review of Apostrophes

Review of Capitalization

Back-to-School Spelling Review of Plurals

Back-to-School Review: Use of Commas

Identifying Fact and Opinion in Reading Passages

Types of Writing in the Workplace

Home Tutoring

Specialized Programs

By Grade

By Subject

Getting Started

Help and Contact