English Language Arts and Reading.6.10.D.vii

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The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

Task students with underlining proper nouns in their writing including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organization names each in a different color. Task students to work with a partner and edit their writing to ensure all proper nouns are capitalized correctly.
 

Further Explanation

This assessment requires students to apply their knowledge of capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organization names. Students should be able to apply correct capitalization by editing drafts, evaluating the correct use of capitalization, and making necessary changes to improve the quality of the writing. This skill should be developed with writing in all genres.

a shortened form of a word or phrase used in writing in place of the whole word or phrase (e.g., Mr. for Mister or Dr. for doctor)
a type of abbreviation formed from the first letter of multiple words that does not require periods after each letter and is pronounced as a new word phonetically or by its individual letters (called initialisms)
Unlike a common noun which names general items (e.g., friends, states, buildings), proper nouns name specific people, places, or things/events, and always begin with a capital letter (e.g., Kylie, Texas, Eiffel Tower, Fourth of July). Students should be especially mindful of correct capitalization when using a proper noun presented as an abbreviation, initialism, acronym, or the name of an organization. Students should understand that if they do not correctly capitalize these types of proper nouns, readers are at risk of not understanding that a word is meant to refer to something specific and is not merely a misspelling or misuse of some other intended word or slang.
During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare them for publication by correcting errors in mechanics, grammar, and spelling. Applying standard rules of the English language correctly helps the audience understand the information more easily by not having to interrupt their thinking to decide what the writer intended to say.
standard rules of the English language, including written mechanics such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling, paragraphing, etc. and written/oral grammar such as parts of speech, word order, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure