1. Review Capitalization Language Usage Skill # 8

2. What rule or idea must I know? Use capital letters as a feature to make meaning. The first word in every sentence is capitalized. Proper nouns begin with capital letters. Capitalize key words in titles. Days of the week, months of the year, and names of holidays are also capitalized.

3. Why do I need to know this? Using correct capitalization tells a reader information needed to interpret ideas.

4. What might cause mistakes for this concept? Careless proofreading.

5. What strategy can I use to edit my own work? Review your writing to be sure you capitalized:  the first word in every sentence proper nouns days, months, holidays important words in titles Correct any mistakes that occur in your writing.

6. What strategy can I use to edit my own work? 1. Fix the capitalization in the paragraph below. O nce upon a time, in a little town in mexico, there lived a horse named joker. that horse loved to annoy and play tricks on the other horses. the horse would spend hours and hours trying to think of ways to annoy his friends. after awhile his friends got tired of him so they all left. then on a sunday in may, on a horse named slick came to town. day after day, joker played tricks on slick. slick played tricks on joker too. soon the people around town got tired of the two horses and their tricks. when the johnson brothers circus came to town on halloween, the townsfolk rounded up joker and slick and gave them to the bud and jake johnson. Now the horses travel all over the country doing tricks for the circus.

7. What strategy can I use to edit my own work? 2. Fix the capitalization in the paragraph below. one hero that shows courage is a president. Presidents show a lot of courage because they are in charge of the u.s. and the wars. The presidents work hard and live in danger. one president, john f. kennedy was assassinated by a gun shot in dallas, texas. that thanksgiving was a sad one for the entire united states. the kennedy center in Washington d c was named after him.