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Grade 3, Language Arts Language Mechanics: Distinguish correct capitalization - the first word of sentences, proper nouns (titles of people/ months of the year/ days of the week/ book titles/ works of art), and necessary parts of a letter (COS 21/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: Capitalization and Washington, D.C. In this unit, students learn and practice capitalizing names of cities, states, countries, streets, buildings, bridges, and geographical places around the theme of Washington, D.C. Pen Pal Letters to Soldiers Overseas Students write letters to soldiers overseas with correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Let's Make Sense This lesson focuses on writing sentences in a logical order while using correct capitalization and punctuation.

Resources: Capitalization Review: Create your own capitalization worksheets on this site. Capitalization Resource Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students copy writing off the board for practice. (E/B) Students use a vocabulary word box with pictures (with names of people, places and things capitalized in the word box). (D, E) Students keep a writing log in which teachers create sentences that have incorrect capitalization that students self-correct or work in small groups to correct.
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