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Capital Letters and End Marks

  • Grade 2
  • English Language Arts
  • 53 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-EN-16

Two short sentences about Ben and a cat start as one line with no capitals and no end marks, and a copy is fixed one rule at a time, with each fix coloured and marked by a small arrow. Viewers see that a sentence starts with a capital, a telling sentence ends with a period, an asking sentence ends with a question mark, and names and the word I always take a capital.

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Here are my friend Ben, a cat and me.

Read along. My friend Ben has a cat. Can I pet it?

Transcript

What the lesson says

Here are my friend Ben, a cat and me.

Read along. My friend Ben has a cat. Can I pet it?

Uh oh! No capital letters and no end marks.

These words make two sentences: one, two.

Each sentence starts with a capital letter.

A telling sentence ends with a period.

An asking sentence ends with a question mark.

A name like Ben starts with a capital letter.

The word I is always a capital letter.

Read it again. My friend Ben has a cat. Can I pet it?

Capitals start sentences, names and I. End marks finish sentences.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 2

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: conventionsBC2-EN-16

Previous: Joining Sentences with And, But and So

British Columbia, Grade 3

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: conventionsBC3-EN-19

Previous: Compound Sentences: Joining Two Ideas with a Comma and a Joining WordNext: Apostrophes in Contractions: Do Not Becomes Don't

This lesson is also listed in Grade 3.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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