Lesson Plan
Capitalize Your Story
This lesson teaches students the basics of capitalization. Get your young writers engaged in writing fun sentences as a class before they write their own, using correct capitalization of course!
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to properly capitalize nouns, such as holidays, product names, and geographic names.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell the students that today, they're going to learn about capitalization.
- Capital letters are mostly used as the first letter of proper nouns (the name of something or someone) and the first letter of sentences.
- Ask students to think of any words they know that should be capitalized. Record their correct answers on the board to serve as a reference for the remainder of the lesson.