1 Capitalization Rules Conventions Writing Workshop Daily Plan
1. Mini-Lesson Focus: Procedural Process Trait Conventions
ELACC.2.L.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. (6+1 Traits: Conventions) a. Capitalizes holidays, product names, and geographic names.
Prior to this lesson, print a copy of the paragraphs on page 2 on a piece of chart paper, an overhead, or have it available on the Promethean Board. Gather students and read the passage together. Ask them what they notice about the capitalized words in the passage. As they call out the capitals they see, keep a jot list of the words and the reasons the words are capitalized. Discuss with them that we follow rules for capitalization because it makes writing easier to understand.
Give them the list of rules on page three to put into the writing folder or notebook. (This list includes the CCGPS standards for capitalization through second grade.) Challenge them to go through the piece on which they are currently working and find words that may need capitalizing. If they don’t have any capitalized words besides those that are at the beginning of a sentence, challenge them to add some proper nouns or names of specific places.
2. Status of the Class 3. Student Writing/Teacher Conferring
4. Author Share: Student Teacher
Ask students to share what words they had to capitalize in their pieces. Materials Mini-Lesson: 10 minutes Copy of page 2 for class viewing Status of Class: 5 minutes Copy of page 3 for each student, cut in half Write/Confer: 25 minutes Sharing: 5 minutes
Extension:
Challenge your students to find other ways that writers use capitalization. (The list on page 3 is not all-inclusive.) Add to your class list as students find different reasons and have students add to their individual list as well.
Troup County Schools 2012 2 Capitalization Rules
The Lost Present
This must be where she lost my Christmas present and was looking for it. I wonder the present was? Could it be a new set of Legos? That would be the best present in the whole United States of America! Sludge sniffed the snow. I looked in the snow for a package or the snow print of a package, but the snow next to the sled marks was unbroken. I, Nate the Great, was puzzled. How could something drop off the sled and not be in the snow or leave a mark in the snow? There were no footprints either.
So I, Nate the Great, knew that no one had come along and taken the birthday present. How did the present get off the sled and where was it? I said that this is a tough ice-cold case. Sludge shivered, and we trudged on.
We saw Annie and her dog, Fang. Sludge shivered some more. He was afraid of Fang. I, Nate the Great was afraid of Fang. Fang ran toward us. Sludge leaped over a big pile of snow. I had never seen Sludge leap that high. Annie told us not to be afraid. She was making a snow dog. It looked just like Fang. It had icicles for teeth.
Troup County Schools 2012 3 Capitalization Rules
1. Capitalize the first word in a sentence. Example: That dog ate my homework!
2. Capitalize the pronoun I. Example: What will I do now?
3. Capitalize all proper nouns, including names of people, holidays, product names, and geographic names. Example: When we went to Maryland for Christmas, Uncle Jeb gave me a new Droid phone.
1. Capitalize the first word in a sentence. Example: That dog ate my homework!
2. Capitalize the pronoun I. Example: What will I do now?
3. Capitalize all proper nouns, including names of people, holidays, product names, and geographic names. Example: When we went to Maryland for Christmas, Uncle Jeb gave me a new Droid phone.
Troup County Schools 2012