2. Using capital letters For emphasis For proper nouns For titles and headings

3. What does the rubric say about capital letters? 5 – I made so few errors, it would be a snap getting this ready to publish! Spelling to knock your socks off. Capitals are in the rights places. 3 – Some bothersome mistakes show up when I read carefully. Spelling’s correct on SIMPLE words. Capitals are mostly there. 1 – Read once to decode, than again for meaning. Look out for spelling mistakes I’ve forgotten some CAPS – others aren’t needed.

4. Capitalize words for emphasis! For reading words with gusto! You can’t use this strategy too much or it won’t work. No! Stop! Eyes widen in horror Vase starts to rick CRASH Oops Sorry, Mom

5. What would you tell this writer? Yesterday was a great day. It was snowing and snowing. It lasted all night and school was cancelled so my best friend and I built things in the snow ALL day long. There were snow people with faces and sticks for arms. They looked like marshmallow people. One time, we looked up and saw that the head had fallen off our snow boy. It rolled off and had landed with a big splat! We laughed and LAUGHED until we made strange noises with our noses. That made us laugh even More. My dog started barking and made a GRRRR sound when we put the coats and hats on the snow people. He is pretty dumb sometimes. That made us start laughing all over again. Yesterday was a PERFECT day!

6. How can YOU use capitalization to show emphasis in your writing?

7. Capitalize proper nouns: Special persons, places or things Look at what you need to capitalize: –Target –Crest toothpaste –Kleenex –tissues –Harris Hill School –Penfield –school –Mrs. Ebersol –teacher Hungry Hungry for a Hershey bar, Butterfinger too. Hungry for an ice cream cone. How about you?

8. What would you tell this writer? Name: Sam sneed Date: Monday, March 7, 2011 DOB: may 8, 2001 Favorite: Food: pizza Restaurant: red robin Book title: The bravest dog ever Author: J. K. Rowling Sports team: Atlanta Braves Park: disneyland Hobby: American Girl Dolls, Salt and Pepper shakers

9. How will you remember to capitalize the names of special people, places and things in your writing? Niagara Falls

10. Capital Letters in Titles and Headings These are headings for my nonfiction report How would you explain to someone what they have to do to capitalize titles and headings? Title: Moonlight on Jupiter Heading 1: Gazing at the Sky Heading 2: Earth Has One Moon Heading 3: Jupiter Has Sixty-Three Moons

11. What would you tell this writer? the dark Some people fear the dark Darkness has the power to make you feel alone. without light, your imagination can make you think that harmless things are suddenly scary. Things are different for nocturnal animals Nocturnal animals love the dark because they can see very well. their eyes are especially large and can reflect even small amounts of light back into the eye.

12. How will you remember to use capital letters in titles and headings?