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Day of the Week

Day of the Week	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Abbreviation	Sun.	Mon.	Tue.	Wed.	Thur.	Fri.	Sat.

Question	Entire Word	Abbreviated
What is the day of the week today?
What day is tomorrow?
What is the day after tomorrow?
What day was it yesterday?
What day was it the day before yesterday?

Month

Month

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Abbreviation

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

Apr.

May

Jun.

Jul.

Aug.

Sep.

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Number

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Question	Entire Word	Abbreviated	Number of the Month
What month is it now?
What is next month?
What was last month?
In what month were you born?
What is the last month of the year?

Day of the Month

Month	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Number of Days	31	28 or 29	31	30	31	30	31	31	30	31	30	31

Question	Answer (A number between 1 and 31)
What day of the month is it today?
What day of the month is the day after tomorrow?
How many months have 30 days?
What is the shortest month?
On what day of the month were you born?

Year

Question	Entire Year (for example, 2015)	Abbreviated (for example, '15)
What year is it?
Next year?
Last year?
The year you were born?
When abbreviated, can you tell the difference between 1915 and 2015?

Writing the Date

	Day, Month Date, Year (for example, Sunday, February 9, 2014)	Month Date, Year (ex., February 9, 2014)	mo/da/yr (ex., 2/9/14)
Today's date
Tomorrow's date
The day after tomorrow
Yesterday's date
The day before yesterday

Fix the Capitalization and Punctuation of the Dates:

Wrong	Right
january 1 2015
sunday july, 20 1969
friday october 4 1957
sunday february 12 1809

Write the Dates (in the Form: Month Date, Year):

The day you were born
US Independence Day this year
The last day of this year
New Year's Day next year