CAPITAL LETTERS AND FULL STOPS: POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

This PowerPoint Presentation is perfect for teaching Punctuation – Capital Letters and Full Stops. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement.

After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Boom Cards students will be able to:

• Consider the functions of capital letters and full stops to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in a text.
• List the similarities and the differences between capital letters and full stops.
• Apply punctuation rules to identify the appropriate use of capital letters and full stops in a text.
• Use capital letters to mark the start of a sentence, to create acronyms, to mark titles and proper nouns.
• Use full stops to mark sentence ends, abbreviations and decimals.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English punctuation – capital letters and full stops – when writing.

This Download Includes:

• EXERCISE 1: Consider the functions of capital letters and full stops to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in the text.
• EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – Use of Capital Letters and Full Stop – to complete the following table with required details to distinguish between capital letters and full stops.
• EXERCISE 3: Select the correct option to identify the appropriate use of capital letters and full stops in the given text.
• EXERCISE 4: Use capital letters to mark the start of a sentence, to create acronyms, to mark titles and proper nouns.
• EXERCISE 5: Use full stops to mark sentence ends, abbreviations and decimals.
• EXERCISE 6: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English punctuation – capital letters and full stops – when writing.
• EXERCISE 7: Punctuate the following sentences: use capital letters and full stops.
• EXERCISE 8: Give an example each for the following (names of-) in keeping with the capitalisation rules.
• EXERCISE 9: Give an example each for the following functions in keeping with the uses of full stops.
• EXERCISE 10: Punctuate appropriately: use full stops and capital letters.
• EXERCISE 11: Punctuate appropriately: use capital letters and full stops.