Using Capital Letters in Titles II 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Further Resources This task is about when to use capital letters for titles. Amy made a list of her favourite television programmes but she forgot to use capital letters for the programme names. Question 1Change answer Read Amy's list and put capital letters in all the places they are needed. Read Amy's list and put capital letters in all the places they are needed. a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) k) uUuUnsolved mMmMysteries wWwWhat nNnNow? uUuUnder tTtThe mMmMountain tTtThe cCcCrocodile hHhHunter lLlLost iIiIn tTtTime tTtThe iIiInvisible mMmMan tTtTop oOoOf tTtThe pPpPops aAaAll dDdDogs gGgGo tTtTo hHhHeaven aAaAt tTtThe bBbBeginning oOoOf tTtTime pPpPiggy iIiIn tTtThe mMmMiddle aAaAdventures fFfFrom tTtThe bBbBook oOoOf vVvVirtues Task administration: This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with auto marking displayed to students). Level: 3 Curriculum info: English, Creating meaning, Writing Key Competencies: Using language, symbols, and texts Keywords: punctuation, capital letters, title Description of task: This task assesses students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles by asking them to put capital letters in 11 TV programme titles. 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 as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions. Learning Progression FrameworksThis resource can provide evidence of learning associated with Writing meaningful text: text features, set 4 within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks. Answers/responses: Y6 (05/2002) a) Unsolved Mysteries moderate b) What Now? moderate c) Under the Mountain difficult d) The Crocodile Hunter difficult e) Lost in Time very difficult f) The Invisible Man difficult g) Top of the Pops difficult h) All Dogs go to Heaven very difficult i) At the Beginning of Time very difficult j) Piggy in the Middle very difficult k) Adventures from the Book of Virtues very difficult Apostrophes Writing a conversation Punctuation Using capital letters II Writing sentences Using Capital Letters in Titles 1 Emailing a pen pal Speech marks Contractions Writing a letter Using apostrophes Writing a conversation II Using commas Contractions II Using commas II Summer holidays Bike ride on the beach
