1a+Capitalisation

So here we begin. I will create a list of possible activities for you to do, and it is up to you to decide what to do. With some concepts you may want to do two or three activities before you feel confident enough to move on - others may take more or less time. Keep working until you are SURE that you have understood the concept completely and are ready to be assessed. I would note that clicking around from one to the next before deciding on an activity will waste significant learning time. I will give a brief description and if you choose an activity I expect you to complete it. Note: Do not expect every choice to blow your mind in terms of creativity and excitement (I can't make them ALL myself haha), but they will be LEARNING experiences and that is the key to success.

Also, I will make notes by the choices if they give you a chance to try a **formative** assessment. This is likely to be a quiz or test which allows you to see how you are progressing towards your target of mastery over the concept and gives you an opportunity to go back and revise or review areas where you are having difficulty. It is a really smart idea to perform a formative assessment of some kind before you take the final assessment for the unit, which we call **summative** assessment.

Capitalisation
First we need to go over the rules and then we will look at different applications of them. Here are the words that need a capital:
 * 1) First word in a sentence
 * 2) Proper nouns, including people, cities, holidays, organizations, and places like “Bob and Mary live in the Pacific Northwest and celebrate Christmas there.”
 * 3) The pronoun “I”
 * 4) Days and months of the year
 * 5) Proper adjectives like French or African
 * 6) Words used as names and titles, like Mom and General Lee.
 * 7) The first word used when opening or closing a letter, like Dear friends or Yours truly
 * 8) The main words in a title, like Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince or Little House on the Prairie.
 * 9) Historical events, eras, or documents like the Declaration of Independence or the Stone Age
 * 10) Letters and abbreviations that stand for names or organizations, like J. K. Rowling or the NHS (National Humane Society)
 * 11) The first word in each line of poetry

ACTIVITIES:

[|ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/e3/words/grammar/capitalletters/index.shtml]

Excellent, informative site intended for adult English language learners, which includes a factsheet with information about capitalisation, games to consolidate and quizzes which you can do as **formative** assessment.

Rewrite the following text with capital letters (could be **formative**):

__the lazy queen__ in a faraway land, there lived a very lazy queen named suzie. she loved to drink pepsi, eat lays potato chips and twinkies, and watch the movie toy story. she never exercised and soon got too big to walk into her favorite place, wanda’s wonderful world of wonder. on tuesday, queen suzie wanted to attend the celebration of her country’s victory over veggieland, called spoiling day. she called to bob and juan and said, “i order you to bring a scooter for me." they got the scooter and she was off. naturally, she won the contest and got the all you can eat in ten minutes award. Answers: []

This is a document about capitalisation for university students (see, even they struggle with it!). This makes for interesting reading for those wanting a bit more of a challenge with this level.

This site has a good section for practicing capitalisation which is a bit more challenging as it also asks about punctuation. Please note: this is an American website so the word 'period' is used to mean 'full stop'. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/interactive_guide/g03/g03home.htm

A capitalisation & punctuation quiz-style game: []

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