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Written ExpressionGrades 3-5April 9, 2020

3rd-5th Grade Written ExpressionLesson: April 9th, 2020

Learning Target:

● Students will improve writing skills by increasing the ability to use proper capitalization.

Background: This is a review lesson for 3rd-5th Grade ● Students learn to capitalize the first letter of others’ first

and last names in 1st grade. ● Students learn to capitalize weeks, days, months,

holidays in 2nd grade. ● Students learn to capitalize names of places in

3rd grade.

Let’s Get Started:Watch Videos: 1. Capitalization Rules video2. Capitalization video

Practice #1:

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?

Think back to the video. ● Days of the week,

months, and holidays need to be capitalized.

● Special places need to be capitalized.

My favorite day of school is friday.

Practice #1: Correct answer

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?Friday is the

name of a day of the week.

My favorite day of school is Friday.

Practice #2:

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?

Think back to the video. ● Days of the week,

months, and holidays need to be capitalized.

● Special places need to be capitalized.

How many days is it until christmas?

Practice #2: Correct answer

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?Christmas is the

name of a holiday.

How many days is it until Christmas?

Practice #3:

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?

Think back to the video. ● Days of the week,

months, and holidays need to be capitalized.

● Special places need to be capitalized. We start school in

august.

Practice #3: Correct answer

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?August is the

name of a month of the year.

We start school in August.

Practice #4:

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?

Think back to the video. ● Days of the week,

months, and holidays need to be capitalized.

● Special places need to be capitalized. We went to texas

last summer.

Practice #4: Correct answer

Which word needs to be capitalized in this sentence?Texas is the

special name of a place.

We went to Texas last summer.

Practice on your own:

Go to this website: Proper Noun Space Smash

1. Choose your player.2. Aim the laser at the word that is a proper noun to

capitalize it.3. Accidentally click the wrong word? Use the lowercase

button to change it. 4. Practice as many times until you get it correct.5. Have fun helping the aliens complete their mission!

MORE Practice on your own:

Go to this website:

1. This game is about capitalization. It has two levels.2. In Level 1, you need to capitalize a given sentence correctly by

clicking on the letter(s) that should be in uppercase. Each question uses only one capitalization rule.

3. In Level 2, you have to click on the correctly capitalized sentence among the given options. These questions use miscellaneous capitalization rules.

Capitalization Cruise

The names of the days of the week, months, and holidays are proper nouns.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Halloween Christmas Valentine’s Day

Practice:Complete this page in your packet.

Click here to open worksheet.

Self Check: Go tell someone in your home your answers.

1. Was this lesson?❏ easy ❏ just right❏ hard

2. Find a book that you are reading. Look for a sentence with capital letters. Explain to an adult why the capitalized words are capitalized.