This task assesses students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles, by asking them to read six book titles and put capital letters in the places they are needed.
Curriculum Links:
This resource can be used to help to identify students’ ability to create texts to meet the writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
use basic punctuation correctly, attempting some complex punctuation
NOTE: Each mark is given when the student has inserted capital letters in all places necessary, and has not inserted them in extra unnecessary places.
Diagnostic and formative information:
Common error
Likely reason
On average 89% of students gave the first word in each title a capital letter, but only 47% of students gave capital letters to other words that needed them.
While the majority of students know that the first word in a title has a capital letter, on average less than half know that other words in titles also need to be capitalised.