It’s Word Work Wednesday! Each week we will dedicate our Wednesday class session to developing our spelling, grammar and understanding of the English Language.

Today’s focus was on capitalization. Over the years, your children learned many different rules related to capitalization. As early as kindergarten, they learned that their name must begin with a capital letter, and so must the word “I” and the first word of a sentence. These are the “basics.” As they continued through elementary school, other rules were added to the mix, and they did their best to remember and use them. In today’s lesson, we reviewed the rules for capital letters and made a promise to one another to always try to apply those rules in any piece of writing we produce. We looked at a sample of writing that used correct capitalization, rather than incorrect, and noticed how often capital letters are used in writing. 

I shared with the class that there are so many rules, that even as an adult, and ELA teacher, I often have to look up the rules while I’m writing! For this reason, I’ve given them a cheat sheet to keep in their ELA binders to reference while writing.