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Capitalization

3rd Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 3.11.D

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
  • (i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;

  • (ii) past, present, and future verb tense;

  • (iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;

  • (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

  • (v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;

  • (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;

  • (vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;

  • (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;

  • (ix) capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;

  • (x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series; and

  • (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.3.C.3.1

Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.

Georgia Math and ELA Standards: 3.L.GC.1.35

Mechanics: Recognize and use conventional capitalization in abbreviations, proper adjectives, and formal titles. (Introduce)

Georgia Math and ELA Standards: 3.L.GC.1.41

Mechanics: Use conventional capitalization and underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works. (Introduce)


3rd Grade Writing - Capitalization Lesson
 



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