More on Capitalization Kindness Lesson 3

What You Already Know… Work with a partner to list as many examples as you can of words that need a capital letter. On your mark…get set…GO!

Check off what you found: Beginning of sentence. Greeting in a letter. Closing in a letter. The pronoun “I” Names of people Names of places Names of months Names of days Other:

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Try It! Write the name of the day or the month in each sentence below. Tuesday 1. The day before Wednesday is ____________. New Year’s Day is the first of ___________. The last day of the year is in ____________. The day before Friday is ______________. January December Thursday

Practice Read this letter Practice Read this letter. Underline three times the letters that should be capital letters in the paragraph below. friday, may 4, 2003 dear Gretal, I have finally learned the number of days in the months. Thirty days has september, april, june, and november. All the rest have thirty-one. february has twenty-eight alone; Save in leap year, at which time, february’s days are twenty nine. Love, Hansel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Proofread Read this letter Proofread Read this letter. Underline three times the letters that should be capital letters in the paragraph below. wednesday, november 7, 2003 dear Jimmy, Last october, my family went to the zoo. In november, we are going to my aunt’s farm. Sincerely, Sam _ _ _ _ _

Proofread Add commas where they are needed. Dear Sleeping Beauty The prince only climbed up my hair once. He was in a hurry. It was an emergency. A dragon was chasing him! (We finally got the elevator fixed!) Sincerely Rapunzel