Let everything that happens be recorded from an animal’s perspective, just as Matriarch in Alaska thinks humans seem like water fowl. Funnel events through the animal’s eyes.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a short story by Colombian-born Gabriel García Márquez. Write a short story based on his “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
How do you narrow down a topic that is too large? Find out how in this prompt as you narrow down the topic of fire for Fire Prevention Day.
This tutorial shows your students the universal proofreading marks and how to use them. Plus, you’ll get examples and an exercise to reinforce the information.
It’s/Its. You’re/Your. They’re/Their/There. Who’s/Whose. These are confusing to students. Use the special infographic and exercise to teach your students. Answers follow the exercise.
It’s tough to come up with ideas for essays. Where do you find the topics? Try this strange way of developing ideas for essays using your own initials!
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.
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.
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!
I’m sharing this infographic with you to use with your students as you teach the sticky, dull, boring subject of when to use commas in a compound sentence that is joined by a coordinating conjunction. After the infographic, you’ll find an exercise you can give your students to reinforce the material they’ve just learned. The answers follow the sentences.
