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Capitalization and Washington, D.C.
Second graders learn and practice capitalizing names of cities, states, countries, streets, buildings, bridges, and geographical places around the theme of Washington, D.C. through activities at learning centers in the classroom.
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Sophia: Capitalization
This tutorial teaches standard rules of capitalization and common errors. It offers a PowerPoint presentation over the rules for capitalizing proper nouns and information on capitalizing abbreviations with examples. This is followed by...
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Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns
This slideshow focuses on the rules for capitalizing proper nouns. It defines proper nouns and lists rules for capitalizing family relationships, names, titles, derivatives of proper nouns, months, holidays, countries, and languages.
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Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns
This slideshow defines proper nouns, explains why they are capitalized, and offers the rules for doing so.
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Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns
This video lesson is designed to help students identify proper nouns and properly capitalize them. Real Player is required.
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Capitalization Guidelines
This page provides a detailed list of when capitalizing is necessary.
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Sophia: Capitalization
This capitalization tutorial uses a variey of media. It begins with the reasons for capitalization and examples set to music in a video and a battle between lower and upper case letters; these are followed by a PDF of the rules for...