The word “everyone” is singular, so writing “Everyone had their flu shots” is grammatically incorrect. How do we fix this in a gender-neutral language? Use this tutorial to teach your students how to use singular indefinite pronouns and gender-neutral language.
National Make Your Bed Day is September 11. Explaining how to do something is an important skill. Make a list of steps to make a bed. It can be humorous or serious.
September 11 is National Patriot Day in the United States in commemoration of the 9/11 attacks. But what is a patriot? Define “patriot,” “patriotism,” or “patriotic.”
What do your students do if their sentence is a question (interrogative) but there’s already a question mark in the quotation? Use this tutorial to show them how to handle those end punctuation marks.
If you could be good at a contest, what contest would you choose? If you have already won or placed in a competition, describe how you prepared for the event or write the story of your rise to the top.
What non-negotiable traits are you looking for in a future spouse? Write a list. Then choose one of those qualities and explain it more fully.
Eric Peters is walking to raise awareness of PTSD. What issue or cause would you like people to know more about? How would you like to raise awareness of this issue? It does not have to involve walking.
Students can be baffled by punctuation. Here’s a tutorial on how to use end quotation marks with commas, periods, colons, and semicolons. Let’s make it easy!
In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, an elder gives the memory of snow to Jonas who has never seen or heard of snow. Describe something physical to someone who has never seen or experienced it before.
In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, in both the book and 2014 movie version, one of the elders transmits memories to the protagonist Jonas. What memory of yours would you give and to whom would you give it?
